In December 1872, a merchant ship was found gliding across the Atlantic in good order — cargo intact, table set for daily life, and not a soul on board. Ten people had vanished without a trace.

He hijacked a Boeing 727 with perfect manners, collected $200,000, and stepped off the aft stairs into a stormy November night. Half a century of suspects, particles and buried cash later, the question stands: who was the man in seat 18?

Twelve years, four seabed hunts and 239 unresolved fates: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains aviation's greatest mystery.

In December 1900, a relief ship reached a remote Scottish lighthouse and found the door shut, the lamps ready — and all three keepers gone without a trace.

In 1590, John White returned to Roanoke Island to find 115 colonists gone — and a single word carved into a post. Modern archaeology may finally be closing in on where they went.

On a December afternoon in 1945, five US Navy bombers took off from Florida on a routine training run. Six aircraft and 27 men never came back.

Her final radio call came in at full strength — she should have been minutes away. Instead she vanished. After a sonar sensation that turned out to be a rock, an expedition sailing in July 2026 believes the answer may have been visible in photographs since 1938.

Five children went missing in a Christmas Eve house fire in 1945 — yet the ashes held no remains, and 23 years later a photograph arrived in the mail.

Louis Le Prince filmed the world's first motion pictures in 1888, years before Edison and the Lumières. Two years later he boarded a train to Paris and was never seen again.

Jim Thompson built a silk empire and a legend. On Easter Sunday 1967 he stepped out of a Malaysian hill cottage for a walk. One of the largest manhunts in Malaysian history found nothing at all.