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
