He was the son of a governor, twenty-three years old, and ten miles from a mangrove coast with two empty cans strapped to his body. His father chartered a jet and sent ships, aircraft and thousands of searchers after him. They found nothing at all, and sixty years later the argument over what happened has still not ended.

On a summer evening in 1983 a fifteen-year-old flute student walked out of a music school near Piazza Navona and was never seen again. She was a citizen of Vatican City. Four decades later, after anonymous callers, two empty princely tombs and three separate investigations, her family is still asking the same question.

On Australia Day 1966 three children caught a bus to the beach and were never seen again. A stranger played with them in the sand for hours. A shopkeeper watched the eldest pay for lunch with a banknote her mother had never given her. Six decades and three excavations later, Australia still has no answer.

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 cleaned and 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.

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.

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.

In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the first moving pictures in history - years before Edison or the Lumieres. Two years later he boarded a train from Dijon to Paris and vanished from it: no body, no luggage, no trace. Cinema's inventor became its own first unsolved mystery.

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.