26Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers
The disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers in 1900 still remains a mystery. The door to the lighthouse was unlocked, coats were missing and half-eaten food was left behind. The last entries on the log described a storm on December 12th with severe winds, but no such storm was ever reported by anyone else.
27. The 6th Dalai Lama led a playboy lifestyle, sleeping with girls and getting drunk on the journey to becoming Dalai Lama, and spending nights in the streets of Lhasa, drinking wine, singing love songs, and having amorous relations with girls. He later disappeared, with his body never being found.
28. Kim Jong Il once kidnapped the biggest South Korean director and movie star (who were also ex-husband and wife) and brought them to North Korea to make movies for him. They escaped by convincing him to let them go abroad to promote the North Korean film industry.
29. Shamsa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum is an Emirati princess and a member of the Dubai ruling family. In July 2000, she fled her country and hid in London until August 2000, where she was kidnapped off the street in Cambridge by men working for her father. She hasn’t been seen in public since.
30. In 2004, the entire Sri Lankan “national handball team” mysteriously disappeared soon after arriving in Germany for an invitational friendly tour. The formation of a national team was unauthorized and is a mystery according to the sports ministry in Sri Lanka.
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31Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller of the Glenn Miller orchestra disappeared in 1944 while flying to Paris during World War 2, spurring conspiracy theories including being assassinated on the way to broker a secret peace deal with Germany and that he died of a heart attack in a Parisian brothel. The case was last investigated in 2019.
32. Jim Sullivan was a psychedelic folk singer, whose 1968 album “UFO” featured extraterrestrial and supernatural themes. In 1975, he disappeared in the deserts of New Mexico and was never seen again.
33. Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam, is such an enigmatic figure that the FBI and various investigators have never been able to definitively trace his origins and background. In 1934, he disappeared and was never heard from again.
34. Masanobu Tsuji was a Japanese war criminal who executed POWs on Bataan. After World War 2, he fled to Indochina and disappeared into Laos in 1961. He was later rumored to have been working for North Vietnam. A CIA report said he was “the type of man who would start World War III without any misgivings.”
35. Richard Klinkhamer’s wife “disappeared” in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
