It’s a harsh reality that thousands of people are missing every year, and some even go unnoticed. But something that everybody notices is when a celebrity vanishes. Sometimes they turn out to be alive, sometimes some horrible fate has come upon them, and sometimes it turns out they’ve never been missed. However, there are a few rare instances of missing celebrities that have never been resolved. Was it foul play? Were the pressures of celebrity life too much for them? Are they still living under a new identity? Some may speculate, but these answers have often been long forgotten.
Celebrities Who Disappeared Without A Trace And Explanation
1. Theodosia Burr Alston
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr sing a duo lullaby to their respective newborn children in Hamilton’s Broadway Sensation, titled “Dear Theodosia.” Later in the play, Philip, Hamilton’s son, died in a duel, but many people don’t know that Theodosia, Burr’s daughter, also had a grim end. She boarded a small boat at Georgetown Port in 1813 after her son’s death and was never seen again. It’s believed that her boat capsized in rough seas.
Theodosia Burr Alston
2. Richey Edwards
For the band Manic Street Preachers, Richey Edwards was a punk musician, guitarist, and lyricist, and he was unafraid of pulling the occasional stunt to prove how real he was. In 1991, he grabbed a razor blade and carved the phrase “4 REAL” into his arm right then and there, when questioned in an interview about his grim persona’s authenticity. Many thought that his 1995 disappearance was another publicity stunt until he was missing long enough to presume he was dead.
Richey Edwards
3. Harold Holt
Australia mismanaged its 17th prime minister, Harold Holt, in December 1967. Seeing as he chose to go swimming on what witnesses described as a day when the surf was particularly rough on an otherwise deserted beach, it is most likely that he drowned, and his body was never found. Ironically, in his name and memory, Australia decided to open a swimming center.
Harold Holt
4. Connie Converse
Connie Converse was a relatively unfamiliar and unsuccessful musician in the 1950s. She is widely credited today as the first true singer-songwriter in the world. Feeling like a failure, in 1961, she quit music and settled into a quieter life. She loaded her car in 1974, still carrying on her shoulders the heavy burden of regret, told her friends she was starting a new life, and disappeared, never to be heard from again.
Connie Converse
5. Jim Sullivan
In the ’60s and ‘ 70s, Jim Sullivan was a cult folk-rocker who was just days away from his big break when he vanished. This was a man with so much talent, all the right connections, who had just landed a gig in Nashville, Tennessee, and it would have been a big break for him … if he had ever made it there. In New Mexico, outside of Santa Rosa, his car was discovered abandoned. His belongings were later found in a nearby motel, including his guitar, but there was no trace of the man himself.
Jim Sullivan
6. Barbara Newhall Follett
In the Jazz Age, Barbara Newhall Follett was a bit of a writing prodigy. At age 13, she published a critically acclaimed novel. Everybody agreed that she would be the next great American writer and hadn’t been for her father. After 10 years, Follett had an argument with her husband in 1939, left her house, and just vanished. He didn’t look very hard for her, and until 1966, the police and press weren’t even notified.
Barbara Newhall Follett
7. Sean Flynn
Sean Flynn lived in the shadow of his golden-age Hollywood father for years. He got his big break with the Vietnam War. He signed up as a photojournalist and was sent back to Vietnam, sending consistently chilling war photos that helped spur the anti-war movement. However, it all ended on April 6, 1970. He and journalist Dana Stone went to a Viet Cong checkpoint to photograph and never heard from again.
Sean Flynn
8. Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi
The daughter of two famous Italian actors, Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi, was basically the Italian Vanna White, turning letters to their Wheel of Fortune version in the early ’90s. Carrisi was missing near New Orleans in 1994 on a Central American backpacking journey. When asked about the case, a security guard said he saw someone jump into the Mississippi River, vaguely matching her description, shouting “I belong in the water,” before swimming and eventually being forced under a barge’s undertow.
Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi
9. Fan Bingbing
After Fan Bingbing’s role in X-Men: Days of Future Past, she was one of China’s biggest actresses and one of the only ones to become internationally successful. However, the Chinese government discovered that she had been committing tax evasion, and she disappeared on July 1, 2018. Artists were known to “disappear” by the Chinese government for such crimes. Who knows where she is or when she’s going to be released?
Fan Bingbing
10. Rico Harris
A promising basketball player, Rico Harris joined the famous Harlem Globetrotters in 2000. Due to alcoholism, his life slowly spiraled downward. He reached rock bottom when he was fired as a security guard in LA for being drunk at work. He packed his car for his girlfriend from his mother’s home to Seattle. His car was found outside Sacramento. People reported seeing a tall man wandering along the side of the highway for days afterward and finding human footprints matching his approximate size, but stopping abruptly. What happened to him remains a mystery.
Rico Harris
11. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous author of one of the world’s most famous children’s books, Le Petit Prince, was also an aviator who loved the complex and death-defying stunts. Later in his life, he was determined to enter World War II to fulfill his duty to his native France. He was seen as a liability in his aviation career and made several mistakes, but none more expensive than he made on July 31, 1944. He crashed his plane on a Mediterranean mission and was not discovered until 2000. His body was not found.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12. Jim Thompson
The businessman who transformed Thai silk into a global commodity was Jim Thompson. He moved to Thailand and started one of the most successful business ventures in the world’s history, becoming a rich socialite by 1967, a former agent of the OSS. That was the year he left for a Malaysian bike trip. Never returned. His huge home, pictured above, is now in Thailand as a museum.
Jim Thompson
13. John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
In 1974, Lord Lucan got fed up fighting his wife for custody of their three children, spying on them, recording their telephone conversations, and decided in a darkened room to bludgeon her to death. However, the issue with murder in a darkened room is that you couldn’t verify your target. Thus, instead of killing his hated wife, he ended up killing Sandra Rivett, the beloved nanny of his children. He vanished after the murder and was never found.
John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
14. Amelia Earhart
Everyone knows the famous story of one of the greatest aviators of her time, Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 as she tried to fly around the world. The U.S. days after the transmissions stopped, The Navy sent planes to fly over the island. They saw no aircraft or people, so all the credible transmissions were written off as a hoax. Nobody checks for sure. A body was probably never found because coconut crabs, large creatures known to eat whole animals and carry away their bones, inhabit the island.
Amelia Earhart
15. Glenn Miller
During WWII, famed musician Glenn Miller joined the Army, though he was well above the draft age. Miller was on his way to France for one such performance in December 1944, when his plane went missing over the English Channel. The leading theory for years was that he was accidentally bombed by Allied planes. Still, new evidence that recently showed up indicates that the fuel intake froze over, causing the aircraft’s engine to stop working, resulting in the aircraft plummeting into the water.
Glenn Miller
16. Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Arnold’s disappearance was Manhattan’s most talked-about scandal in 1910. One day, the 25-year-old aspiring writer, a wealthy socialite, went out telling her mother she would buy a new gown. She ran into a friend who told her that she was going to Central Park for a walk. That was the last time they saw her. Some people suspect she committed suicide or died from a botched abortion due to a rejected manuscript, but those who saw her that day said she was in excellent spirits, so it seems unlikely.
Dorothy Arnold
17. Bison Dele
NBA star Brian Williams was famously eccentric, roaming Asian nations and going to Lebanese desserts to fire bazookas for fun. He bought a boat called Hakuna Matata in 2007 and said he would sail from Tahiti to Hawaii with his captain, girlfriend, and brother. The boat never came to Hawaii, and Dele’s brother, Miles Dabord, was the only one alive. Two months later, in Phoenix, he was arrested for buying gold using one of his brother’s checks. But since Dabord overdosed on insulin, the murders were never confirmed.
Bison Dele
18. Joe Pichler
In the Beethoven films, Varsity Blues, and a few other pieces, Joe Pichler, a featured actor, would probably have had a great acting future. To complete high school, he took a break after his childhood career. One night, Pichler told his friend he’d call back an hour later, but he never did. His car was later found at an intersection near a bridge, and a suicide note was found in his apartment saying he wanted to be a “stronger brother,” and he wanted his younger brother to have all his possessions. His body was never found.
Joe Pichler
19. Jean Spangler
In the 1940s, Jean Spangler was about to become a star. One night in 1949, she told her sister-in-law that she would meet her ex-husband and shoot a film that would last into the night. She never returned. Her bag was later found in a park. There was a note addressed to Kirk regarding her abortion. Whether she died or something happened to her on the way there, nobody is quite sure.
Jean Spangler
20. Michael Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller was New York Governor and Gerald Ford’s Vice-President, but his son faced a suspicious demise. When Michael Rockefeller collected artifacts in New Guinea when he disappeared, his ship was discovered floating 12 miles offshore. His death, lacking evidence, officially ruled a drowning.
Michael Rockefeller
21. Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf is a director, producer, and screenwriter from Sweden. Lagerlöf was out scouting for his next film, Fjällbackamorden-Strandriddaren by Camilla Läckberg, in October 2011. He was near the cliffs outside Tanumshede in Bohuslän, in the Tjurpannan nature reserve. Large waves are believed to have crashed into the shoreline where Lagerlöf was scouting, knocking him off his feet. No other witnesses were around. He’s presumed to be dead.
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
22. Scott Smith
With hard-charging hits such as “Hot Girls in Love” and “Working for the Weekend” that are still well known and played worldwide, the Canadian band Loverboy was one of the biggest rock bands of the early ‘ 80s. Scott Smith was a founding member until his odd disappearance at sea on November 30, 2000, staying with the group all the way.
Scott Smith
23. “Sweet Jimmy” Robinson
Jimmy Robinson fought against Muhammad Ali on February 7, 1961. The reporters tried their best to find out what had happened to one of the lucky men who had stepped right with the great one, but their hunt had reached a dead end. In fact, he had no known birth date, no known full name, no family, and no public records that linked him to a single place or time. It was as though he never existed.
“Sweet Jimmy” Robinson
24. Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar Zeta Acosta was a Mexican-American lawyer and activist, portrayed by Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. As he was portrayed in the cult-classic film, he lived a crazy lifestyle, but when he was 39 years old, Acosta vanished in 1974 while traveling through Mexico.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
25. HALE BOGGS
Hale Boggs was a 1972 big deal. Global disappearance reaction. Last year, October 16, Boggs supported a fellow Congressman’s reelection campaign in Alaska. All had remote Juneau aircraft. According to Medium, never again heard. Day’s lousy weather. Since Boggs didn’t appear in Juneau, everybody guessed what happened. What was then the greatest search expedition in U.S. history, with 90 planes mapping Alaska 325,000 square miles? Aircraft or travelers missing were never traced. Those out there appear to have killed Boggs for his involvement in investigating the JFK assassination. It’s not about getting a small airplane in poor weather, right?
25. HALE BOGGS
26. AMBROSE BIERCE
Spoilers: Bierce’s gone. The hilarious writer died 71 in 1914. If he ended up like Brendan Fraser in Encino Man, frozen in ice, reborn thousands of years later to teach two kids some fun-yet-valuable life lessons, he went fast. Bierce’s last contact said he was going to Ojinaga, a town that quickly fell into a horrible siege. One biographer of Pancho Villa reports that Bierce rode with the legendary revolutionary, dying as part of his army. Others believe Ojinaga was just injured and then died of illness. Yet others believe he rode with the powers of government, seized and killed by Villa’s citizens.
26. AMBROSE BIERCE
27. WELDON KEES
In another universe, Weldon Kees is one of those names you got sick of studying in American lit class. A poet who tried to bridge the divide between jazz age experimentation and New Age madness, Kees was always on the verge of making it big. Living in New York, he attended literary parties alongside people like the novelist Graham Greene. Living in San Francisco, he became friends with the movie critic Pauline Kael. But Kees never became famous, exactly. The sad part was, he disappeared too soon for that.
27. WELDON KEES
28. ZAHIR RAIHAN
In 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was convicted of abducting and killing intellectuals around this time. However, the trial was tainted by possible political bias, and Mueen-current Uddin’s Great Britain home refused to extradite him. The tragic part is that Raihan could only be kidnapped because he was looking for his brother. The Dhaka Tribune claims that Raihan’s brother was abducted from Dhaka’s streets two days before the war ended. When the dust settled, Raihan went in search of him, only to vanish himself. It’s almost certain that both were murdered to support Bangladeshi independence.
28. ZAHIR RAIHAN
29. D.B. Cooper
Before disappearing, DB Cooper wasn’t famous. Cooper was shown a note from Portland to Seattle on November 24, 1971. He demanded an airplane landing, a $200,000 meeting, and parachutes. Upon landing, ransom money and parachutes were collected and passengers discharged. It started again after refueling to Mexico as instructed. Cooper tied an air parachute, grabbed the money, and jumped. Cooper’s jump was unlikely to survive researchers. He was inexperienced and in poor jumping conditions. Some disintegrated ransom money was found on Columbia River banks in February 1980, but that was a decade-old parachute strap until the other day.
29. D.B. Cooper
30. Roal Amundsen
Roald Amundsen is the best-known explorer in history. He was the first man to reach the South Pole, leading the first North Pole expedition. He also recorded a successful Northwest Passage journey first. In an Arctic rescue mission, Amundsen and his crew missed another aircraft crashing. Some of the wreckage was discovered, including a tank from Amundsen’s plane, but no bodies, no major wreckage. Numerous searches were conducted in the area where the plane was thought to have gone down, but teams and planes are still unknown to this day.
30. Roal Amundsen
31. Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was president of the Teamsters Union International Brotherhood between 1958-1971. During that period, while the union grew tremendously, Hoffa engaged in some unpleasant things, engaging with the mafia and convicting several crimes. Hoffa told his family and friends he met well-known mobsters Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano in late July 1975. Later that night, Hoffa called his wife, saying the men were late, but he’d wait for them. He’s never home. Over the years, many people were accused of murder, and some even admitted it, but there was no evidence or evidence to support the allegations.
31. Jimmy Hoffa
32. Patrick McDermott
Patrick McDermott may be more famous than he did for his alleged death and connection with Olivia Newton-John. For some years, McDermott and Newton-John had an on-and-off relationship, but McDermott made news in 2005 when he disappeared from a fishing boat off the Los Angeles coast. He wasn’t missing until about a week after disappearing from the boat, and all the other 20-plus passengers gave conflicting reports. McDermott was declared “most likely drowned” in 2008, but then it was suggested he probably faked his own death to cash in on a life insurance claim and lived in Mexico.
32. Patrick McDermott
33. Slim Wintermute
Slim Wintermute was a basketball player known as part of basketball’s first-ever NCAA Tournament championship teams. Playing for the Oregon Ducks, Wintermute would retire from the University. He would play professional basketball in the National Basketball League for a while before NBA formation. In 1977, Wintermute went missing while he was boating with a friend. The boat set off at Lake Union at 7 am. The boat was found neutral at 2 pm, the other passenger sleeping on board. He claims Wintermute fell asleep on board. Many believe Wintermute’s known heart condition led to a heart attack and fell overboard.
33. Slim Wintermute
34. Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was a renowned English explorer named towns, bridges, rivers, bays, straits, and others, though he didn’t seem to work for a very nice man. He’s starving, half-frozen, and homesick crew became so restless while exploring that they mutinied after several months due to their unwillingness to seek ice. The remaining crewmen returning to England were arrested and charged with Hudson’s murder but escaped without being punished for lack of details surrounding their captain’s death.
34. Henry Hudson
35. Azaria Chamberlain
The most notorious missing case in Australian history might be Azaria Chamberlain. You’ve probably heard the famous phrase, “a dingo ate my baby,” and that’s what made it famous. When her parents camped outback in 1980, Azaria Chamberlain, who was only nine weeks old, disappeared. The mother, Linda Chamberlain, was tried and convicted of murdering her young baby daughter and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, after serving for three years, a piece of baby’s clothing was found in a dingo’s lair, by chance. The lair was located near the campsite where baby Azaria had gone missing.
35. Azaria Chamberlain
36. Solomon Northup
Sometime in the early 1800s, Soloman Northup was believed to have been born in New York. Even though he was black, both his parents were free, but his father was a slave at one time. Sometime in the late 1820s, Northup married a woman by Anne Hampton’s name, and the two had three children. Years later, in 1841, Northup believed that, albeit temporarily, he had been offered work in Washington DC as a fiddler. It turned out to be a ruse, however, and he was abducted and sold into slavery.
36. Solomon Northup
37. Heinrich Muller
Heinrich Muller is considered one of the most disgraceful people of the twentieth century. He joined Nazi Germany’s state police, Gestapo, in 1933. He quickly moved to chief rank and formally joined the 1939 Nazi Party. Muller’s actions involve helping advance false information used to justify Poland’s invasion and help the Holocaust. On May 1, 1945, one day before Hitler took his life, Muller was last seen. Nobody knows what happened to him, but most believe he died around that time. There has not been any sign of him since that day.
37. Heinrich Muller
38. Frank Morris
Five of the thirty-six inmates who tried to flee Alcatraz over the twenty-nine years it had been operating as a federal penitentiary are listed as missing but are presumed to have drowned, even though no bodies have ever been found. Twenty-three of the others were captured, six were shot/killed, and two drowned. Of the five that went missing, one of the most famous is Frank Morris.
38. Frank Morris
39. Philip Taylor Kramer
Philip Taylor Kramer was an American bass guitar player who later became an inventor and executive for the Iron Butterfly rock band. Kramer was supposed to pick up a business partner and his wife at the airport but instead called them directly to their hotel. His disappearance led to a massive search, including numerous news and talk show episodes, including Oprah, The Unexplained, Unsolved Mysteries, and America’s Most Wanted. But, despite many conspiracy theories, nothing led to his whereabouts.
39. Philip Taylor Kramer
40. Natalie Holloway
Natalie Holloway was an American teenager who made international headlines when she disappeared mysteriously on a trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005. Hollaway was supposed to be on a Caribbean flight on May 30 but never showed up for her flight. Three locals, including Joran van der Sloot, last saw her outside a restaurant. Sloot was later found guilty in Lima, Peru, of killing another young girl, leading authorities to believe he had to do with Hollaway’s disappearance, but no evidence was found.
40. Natalie Hollaway
41. Kurt Cobain
In a heartbreaking piece, Rolling Stone deemed Nirvana’s final days “a crisis” and “chaotic” Cobain entered a LA rehab center in April 1994. He allegedly told employees he’d step out to smoke but went missing afterward. Rolling Stone claimed that witnesses saw the artist “looking ill and wearing an incongruously thick jacket” in a park, and he “barricaded” himself in a greenhouse built over his garage sometime on or before April 5, 1994, wrote a one-page suicide note, possibly used heroin, and took his own life at the age of 27 with a shotgun.
41. Kurt Cobain
42. Michael Cavallari
On November 27, 2015, Michael Cavallari, the reality TV star’s brother Kristin Cavallari, was abandoned on the Utah highway. Michael’s body was located about two weeks after he went missing, “three miles from where his car was wrecked in the high desert of Grand County, Utah,” according to E! News. The autopsy report released in February 2016 confirmed that Michael had accidentally died of “hypothermia from exposure to cold temperatures.”
42. Michael Cavallari
43. J-Kwon
By rapping about everyone at the club getting ‘tipsy, Jerrell C. Jones, better known as J-Kwon, made a name for himself. But the nightlife-loving artist soon disappeared from music charts and the public eye. His friend and manager, Dorian Washington, told VIBE in early March 2010, “I had called him two weeks back because we had a promo tour. I emailed him, called him, texted him. Twitter him… kept on calling. The last time I actually saw him was in August [2009].” The self-titled studio album of J-Kwon was released that same month. So, of course, many assumed that his disappearance was nothing more than a stunt for publicity.
43. J Kwon
44. Scott Hutchison
To detail his suicidal thoughts, Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison used music. Although his battle with depression was well known, when Hutchison sent out a series of cryptic tweets in May 2018, fans were still puzzled. His bandmates announced in a tweet the next day that Hutchison had disappeared. According to The New York Times, the Scottish band’s lead singer was last seen leaving a hotel in South Queensferry, Scotland, and his body was found on May 10, 2018.
44. Scott Hutchison
45. Jesse Camp
Marisha, Camp’s sister, filed a missing person report with the Riverside Police Department on July 19, 2018, claiming that her brother was missing. Marisha told police that she hadn’t heard from her brother since “around the 11th or 12th” of July, which she described as “unusual.” Camp was stopped outside of a Sherwin Williams paint store on July 19, 2018, for a “pedestrian check,” according to the Fontana Police Department, though they did not elaborate on the nature of the check. Officials found Camp on July 24, 2018, and said he was “not in need of any assistance.”
Jesse Camp
46. Sinéad O’Connor
Sinéad O’Connor, an Irish singer-songwriter, has been missing since May 15, 2016. O’Connor went for a bike ride around Wilmette, a Chicago suburb, at 6 a.m. on Sunday the 15th. County police issued a search warrant for O’Connor after receiving a tip that he had not returned home. O’Connor has struggled with depression in the past, and only a few days before her disappearance, she wrote a Facebook message to her son, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” O’Connor’s struggles to contact her 12-year-old son, Shane, for whom she was fighting for custody, were openly discussed in the note. Friends and family were concerned that O’Connor had taken her own life after she had been missing for more than 24 hours, as she had previously attempted suicide.
Sinéad O’Connor
47. Jason Mewes
The struggles of actor Jason Mewes with substance abuse have been well-documented. Mewes failed to appear in court for a mandatory hearing following his arrest on heroin charges in 2001. A warrant was issued, and Mewes was discovered to be virtually untraceable. Jason Mewes reappeared in April 2003, appearing in a Freehold, New Jersey, courtroom to face charges. The star of Jay and Silent Bob was sentenced to several months of mandatory rehab by a judge. He was also placed on probation until 2005.
Jason Mewes
48. James Allan
James Allan, a Glasvegas singer, gave fans (and bandmates) quite a scare when he went missing for several days in September 2009. After Allan failed to appear at the Mercury Awards, where Glasvegas was scheduled to perform, word spread around the world that he had vanished. The Scottish singer was initially reported to be ill, but behind the scenes, everyone was concerned. James Allan informed Glasvegas’ manager that he was fine five days later. He was reportedly in New York City, though it’s unclear why he flew from Europe to America. A few days later, Allan joined Glasvegas in Boston, where the band opened for Kings of Leon.
James Allan
49. Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder, the actress who played Superman, went missing for four days in April 1996 before being found in a stranger’s backyard in Glendale, California. Kidder was discovered filthy and disoriented, having had “the most public freak-out in history,” according to reports. Her two front teeth were missing, and she was delusional. Kidder later admitted to having bipolar disorder, but she refused to take any of the medications prescribed for it. Kidder said she became increasingly paranoid during her breakdown, believing that her first husband and the CIA were “trying to kill” her at one point.
Margot Kidder
50. Andrew Koenig
Actor Andrew Koenig (aka Boner from “Growing Pains”) went missing in Vancouver, British Columbia, in February 2010. As family and friends’ concerns grew, Vancouver police launched an investigation into Koenig’s disappearance. Koenig suffered from depression, according to his parents. He had contacted a close friend in the days leading up to his disappearance to return several items that had been given to him as gifts. Andrew Koenig’s body was discovered by friends searching Stanley Park in Vancouver on February 25, 2010. Walter Koenig, Koenig’s father, confirmed that his son had hanged himself in a heavily wooded area.
Andrew Koenig
51. Casey Kasem
After Kasem’s children claimed they couldn’t find him, a judge ordered the whereabouts of the legendary radio host Casey Kasem to be revealed in May 2014. Kasem’s daughter, Kerri, was named Kasem’s temporary conservator, a significant victory for Kasem’s children in their long and arduous battle with Kasem’s wife, Jean. Kasem was found in the state of Washington shortly after a missing person’s report was filed with Santa Monica cops. He died at the age of 82 about a month later.
Casey Kasem
52. Ozzy Osbourne
After his wife, Sharon, kicked him out of the house for his infidelity, Ozzy Osbourne went missing in May of 2016. Sharon reportedly discovered Ozzy’s relationship with stylist Michelle Pugh and expelled him from their home. He first went to the Beverly Hills Hotel, but only stayed for a short time. When his children, Jack, Kelly, and Aimee, tried to contact him in the days following his fight with Sharon, they were unable to locate him. Friends were concerned that he would fall off the wagon and revert to alcohol and drugs as a coping mechanism.
Ozzy Osbourne
53. Nick Stahl
In May of 2012, Nick Stahl, an actor, and alleged drug addict was reported missing by his estranged wife, Rose Stahl. She became concerned after being unable to contact Stahl for nearly a week and expressed concern that he had overdosed. Stahl emerged from a downtown Los Angeles crack house a few days after the story broke, saying he was fine and had entered a 30-day inpatient rehab program. However, the drama didn’t end there; in June of 2012, Stahl went missing for the second time. The second time around, Nick Stahl didn’t go missing for long. He reappeared a few days after fleeing the rehab facility.
Nick Stahl
54. Mark Sanford
According to Business Insider, in 2009, Mark Sanford, the then-governor of South Carolina, went missing for about six days after telling people he was going on an Appalachian Trail hike. He was actually going to Argentina to see his mistress, who was later identified as Mara Belén Chapur, as it turned out. When Sanford returned to the United States, he apologized for his secret liaison and begged forgiveness. Sanford and Chapur later got engaged, though it would be short-lived after his marriage fell apart.
Mark Sanford
55. Randy Quaid
According to CNN, Randy Quaid, an Academy Award nominee, and his wife, Evi Quaid, fled to Canada in 2010 to seek asylum from a group they dubbed “Hollywood star whackers” who were allegedly out to kill them. The couple’s illegal activities in the United States included using fake credit cards to pay for hotel bills and squatting in one of their former homes, which led to their escape to Canada. In 2011, the couple was granted permission to remain in Canada, according to CNN. Randy’s request for citizenship was denied in 2013, while Evi was able to obtain Canadian citizenship because her father was born in Canada.
Randy Quaid
56. Richard Stanley
On the set of the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau, a lot of strange things happened, but one of the most bizarre was what happened after director Richard Stanley (above, center) was fired just three days into production. Stanley was supposed to be escorted onto a flight from the remote set in Australia to Los Angeles, according to The Telegraph, but he was not on board when his plane arrived at LAX. A month later, he was found by some of the film’s extras, “living rough in the jungle: he’d fled from the airport to a fruit plantation, where he’d been subsiding on yams, cassava and coconuts, along with his substantial personal stash of marijuana.”
Richard Stanley
57. Richard Simmons
When his public appearances came to a halt after he was last seen in February 2014, fans became increasingly concerned about the fitness guru. He simply vanished for three years. We didn’t find out Simmons was “perfectly fine” and “very happy” until March 2017, when the police conducted a welfare check and issued a statement through People magazine.
Richard Simmons
58. Ray Gricar
Ray Gricar was well-known in his hometown because of his time as a district attorney, even if he wasn’t an international celebrity. Ray was supposed to return home from a road trip in April 2005. Of course, no one saw him after that. His car was quickly discovered parked near two bridges, which his family compared to the scene where Ray’s brother committed suicide. A sniffer dog on the scene, however, acted as if Ray had gotten into another vehicle. Ray’s family was not convinced that he committed suicide, as some officers believed.
Ray Gricar
59. Jodi Huisentruit
Jodi Huisentruit had earned a reputation as a local celebrity during her time as a news anchor in Iowa before she vanished. Jodi went missing in June 1995, just moments after telling a colleague she was running late for work. The station called the cops three hours after she failed to show up for work. Officers arrived at her apartment quickly and discovered that Jodi had been in a struggle near her car, as evidenced by the bent car key and personal items strewn across the parking lot. On Jodi’s car, there was also an unidentified handprint. That was the only information the cops had, and nothing more has come out of the strange case since.
Jodi Huisentruit
60. Edward V Of England
King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville’s eldest son was born in Holland while his father was away. When Edward IV reclaimed his throne, he renamed his son Prince of Wales. However, after the king’s death, a disagreement arose between the child’s maternal and paternal uncles over the king’s marriage to Elizabeth. Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, were eventually imprisoned in the Tower of London. The boys’ skeletons were discovered in the tower in 1647, and it is assumed that they were murdered.
Edward V Of England
61. George Mallory
George Mallory was an experienced mountain climber and a schoolteacher in England. Before being recruited for the first major climbing expedition up Mount Everest in 1921, he had trained on the most difficult routes up the Alps. He embarked on his third expedition in 1924. On June 8, Mallory and another climber, Andrew Irvine, set out for the summit and were never seen again. They vanished, leaving the world to speculate about what happened on that fateful day, including whether they were the first climbers to reach the summit. Irvine’s axe was discovered in 1933 at a height of about 27,750 feet (8,460 meters), indicating that they did not make it to the summit and died.
George Mallory
62. Wallace D. Fard
Wallace D. Fard is the founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a preacher, and a self-proclaimed savior of African Americans. From 1930 to 1934, he was the outspoken leader of the NOI in Detroit, and he had a number of run-ins with the law during that time. He claimed to have been born in Mecca, but the FBI’s investigation revealed that he was born in New Zealand and lived the life of a minor scofflaw once he arrived in America. It was in 1934 when he vanished.
Wallace D. Fard
63. Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg came from a well-connected and respectable family in Sweden. He was recruited as a special envoy for a major rescue operation of Hungarian Jews in 1944 because of his family and business connections throughout Europe. Between March and June of that year, the Nazis deported approximately 400,000 Jews, the majority of whom were sent to Auschwitz. Wallenberg distributed documents to Budapest’s Jews and persuaded Hungarian authorities to allow the documents (known as a Schutz-Pass) to be used as passports. Around 15,000 Jews were saved from certain death thanks to these passports. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet troops in January 1945 for unknown reasons and later claimed to have died of a heart attack in 1947.
Raoul Wallenberg
64. Al-Hakim
Al-Hakim was a Fatimid dynasty ruler who was known for his erratic and contradictory leadership in the 10th–11th centuries. He ruled for 25 of his 36 years (996–1021), during which time he established a generous policy to help the poor only to follow it up with some shockingly harsh or strange edicts, such as forbidding women from leaving their homes and then forbidding cobblers from making or selling women’s footwear. Al-Hakim rode out of Cairo one night in February 1021. He was never seen or heard from again, and his body was never discovered.
Al Hakim