We love a good unsolved mystery, and unexplained disappearances that have manage

d to baffle historians have also intrigued the general public. Unlike the FBI's
decades-old search for the remains of a certain convict/labor organizer from Det
roit, we've successfully managed to track down 15 missing people of note, includ
ing six particularly intriguing head-scratchers followed by a few more names tha
t you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' book after it was published.

Who: Harold Holt
Missing since: 1967
Where: Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia

It's not every day that a prime minister vanishes into the sea. However, just th
at happened on Dec. 17, 1967, when the 17th prime minister of Australia, Harold
Holt, decided to go for a swim at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria. Followin
g two days of exhaustive search efforts, the authorities declared that 59-year-o
ld Holt, a skilled swimmer and longtime member of Parliament who had served as p
rime minister for less than two years, was presumed dead. His body was never rec
overed and it wasn't until 2005 that a coroner ruled the cause of death to be ac
cidental drowning he was either swept out to sea or eaten by shark in a risky lo
cation known for strong rip currents. At the
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/15-famous-people-wh
o-mysteriously-disappeared#ixzz3FKionGvYWe love a good unsolved mystery, and une
xplained disappearances that have managed to baffle historians have also intrigu
ed the general public. Unlike the FBI's decades-old search for the remains of a
certain convict/labor organizer from Detroit, we've successfully managed to trac
k down 15 missing people of note, including six particularly intriguing head-scr
atchers followed by a few more names that you may recognize.

In a majority of these cases, the unaccounted-for person was legally declared de
ad at some point, although their body has never been recovered and their whereab
outs are still unknown. Some of these vanishings have been subject to massive se
arch parties, wild speculation, media sensationalism, false accusations, dead en
ds, wrong turns and the occasional TV miniseries. Some are rather tragic. And in
one famous instance, the identity of the AWOL individual was unknown even befor
e he vanished into thin air (by jumping from a plane no less).

So cue up the appropriate music and join us as we delve into the realm of the mo
stly unknown.

Who: Henry Hudson
Missing since: 1611
Where: James Bay, Canada

Henry Hudson (a.k.a. the famed British navigator who has a river, bay, straight,
town, bridge, etc. named after him) must have been a rather pushy fellow to wor
k for. His own crew homesick, starving, half-frozen and unwilling to keep explor
ing after becoming trapped in ice for several months set a determined Hudson, hi
s teenage son and seven infirm and/or loyal-to-Hudson sailors adrift on a small,
open boat in the middle of present-day Hudson Bay. Hudson and the other cast-of
fs were never seen or heard from again. (So much for talking things out with the
HR department, eh?)

Not a whole lot of particulars are known about the mutiny that ended Hudson's fo
urth expedition as only a handful of the Discovery's crew survived the voyage ba
ck to England to stand trial. Arrested and charged with the murder of their capt
ain, the mutinous crewmembers ended up escaping any kind of punishment and, to t
his day, it's generally believed that a marooned Hudson met his maker while aboa
rd the tiny lifeboat. This scenario has been immortalized in a famous John Colli
er painting (pictured). (A fur-clad, ZZ Top-ish Hudson doesn't appear too thrill
ed in it.)

In his book, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson," esteemed his
tory professor Peter Mancall highlights evidence that suggests Hudson could have
been violently murdered by his crew and not forced into a small boat with a few
others and left to die. The possibility that Hudson managed to survive the muti
ny, changed his hair color and relocated to Rio de Janeiro where he lived out th
e rest of his life as a popular yet enigmatic lounge singer named "Bob Simpson"
has been ruled out. And as for Hudson's doomed crew, you never know, they could
have very well reemerged nearly 200 years later alongside a few other former dis
gruntled Hudson sailors the crew of the Half Moon as hirsute bowling enthusiasts
living in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Who: Amelia Earhart
Missing since: 1937
Where: The Pacific Ocean

Pioneering aviatrix, author, teacher, magazine editor, celebrity fashion designe
r, cigarette spokesperson. In her short 39 years on this planet, Amelia Earhart
managed to amass an impressive CV, but it was her mysterious disappearance while
attempting a round-the-world flight that continues to intrigue to this day.

Although there are numerous theories, no one can be certain what really happened
when Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July
2, 1937, while en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E, a disappear
ance that resulted in the most intensive and expensive search effort in American
history up to that time. It's commonly believed that the Electra ran out of fue
l and Earhart, who was declared dead in absentia in 1939, ditched the plane into
the Pacific near Howland Island the "crash and sink theory" although there's be
en no shortage of wild myths and legends surrounding Earhart's disappearance. Mo
st recently, researchers embarked on a $2.2 million expedition to prove that Ear
hart crashed her plane on the tiny island of Nikumaoro.

Our favorite Earhart disappearance legend, other than the one where she's employ
ed to spy on the Japanese by F.D.R., has to be the one involving the iconic pilo
t pulling an Abbie Hoffman a ludicrous scenario in which Earhart secretly comple
ted the round-the-world flight but, tired of all the fame and fortune, decided t
o move to Monroe Township, N.J., and change her name to Irene Craigmile Bolam. A
uthor Joe Klaas ran with this theory in his 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives," a
nd, as a result, the real Irene Craigmile Bolam was none too pleased. Bolam, a b
anker and amateur pilot, filed a $1.5 lawsuit and publisher McGraw-Hill quickly
pulled Klaas' bo