Strange Company

The following is yet another case where a husband and wife disappear simultaneously, but in this instance the circumstances were particularl...

When one person inexplicably disappears, it’s weird.  When two people vanish, presumably together, things get stranger still.  When two peop...

This blog has featured several stories about people who disappear or run into some other sort of disaster while on long road trips.  This we...

A family named Sodder once lived in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  It was a large household:  The parents, Jenny and George, and nine of thei...

"Idaho Statesman," August 13, 1976, via Newspapers.com It’s generally strange enough when a person mysteriously vanishes.  But whe...

Halloween is a day of ghosts, witches, goblin cats…and occasionally, as the case below will demonstrate, an eerie real-life mystery. 16-year...

Missing-persons cases can be tough to solve, but investigators usually have at least an approximate idea of when and where the person vanish...

"Indianapolis News," March 4, 1994, via Newspapers.com 29-year-old Mark Tomich of Indianapolis, Indiana was one of those people wh...

Via Newspapers.com This is another of what I call “mini-mysteries”--murder or missing-persons cases where there just isn’t enough informatio...

"Napa Valley Register," June 24, 1976, via Newspapers.com Perhaps the most frightening thing about missing-person cases is how so ...

"Sioux Falls Argus-Leader," February 12, 1994, via Newspapers.com In this blog, I have written about people who die under highly m...

"Tulsa Tribune," April 9, 1948, via Newspapers.com On April 9, 1947, the town of Woodward, Oklahoma, (population 5500) was slammed...

Scott Moorman The tale of the last voyage of the "Sarah Jo" is a short, simple one, but at the same time it is one of the stranges...

Annie Hommel was the daughter of poor German immigrants living in Saugerties, New York.  Around 1870, fourteen-year-old Annie went "in ...

"Poughkeepsie Journal," July 21, 2002, via Newspapers.com Once you reach the venerable age of nearly a century, you are entitled t...