The village that disappeared
Individuals that disappear can perhaps be explained by a variety of reasons, but when an entire village of 2000-odd inhabitants suddenly vanishes, what do we make of it?
In November 1930, a fur trapper, Joe Labelle, made his way to an Eskimo Village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in Northern Canada. He was familiar with the village, which he knows to be a thriving fishing community. When he arrived, hoever, he found the village totally deserted, with vacant huts and storehouses devoid of any living being. He found a pot of blackened stew over a smouldering fire, and no other signs of life.
Upon notifying the authorities, an investigation was launched, from which they noted several bizarre findings.
1. There were no footprints whatsoever to indicate that the villagers have simply chosen to abandon the village.
2. The sled dogs were found dead under a 12-foot high snowdrift, apparently they had starved to death.
3. Their belongings and foodstuffs were intact and left as they are, in designated places in their individual huts,
4. The ancestral graves have been emptied.
USS Cyclops and other ships
In 1918, the USS Cyclops, used normally to deliver fuel and supplies to the US battlefleet dirung WWI, mysteriously disappeared while enroute from Brazil to Baltimore. The ship docked briefly in Barbados on Mar 3 - Mar 4, and when it failed to arrive on Mar 14 in Baltimore, a search was made, and neither her wreck nor any of the 309 people onboard was ever found.
In 1928, the K?benhavn, a five-masted Danish steel barque, a sail-training ship with a crew of 75 including 45 boy cadets, sailed from the River Plate for Melbourne, Australia, on Dec. 14. The last radio contact with the ship was made on Dec. 22 and all was well. The K?benhavn and its crew disappeared without a trace.
The Legend of David Lang
This famous case allegedly took place in September, 1880 on a farm near Gallatin, Tennessee, in full view of several witnesses. The two Lang children, George and Sarah, were playing in the front yard of the family home. Their parents, David and Emma, came out the front door, and David headed off across a pasture toward his horses. At this time, a buggy carrying family friend Judge August Peck was approaching. David turned to walk back to the house, saw the buggy and waved to the judge as he strode across the field.
A few seconds later, David Lang - in clear view of his wife, his children and the judge - disappeared in mid-step. Emma screamed and all of the witnesses rushed to the spot where David once was, thinking perhaps he had fallen into a hole of some kind. There was no hole. A thorough search by the family, friends and neighbors turned up nothing. A few months after the unexplained disappearance, the Lang children noticed that the grass on the spot where their father vanished had turned yellow and wilted in a circle measuring about 15 feet in diameter.
These strange phenomenons have been left unanswered up to date. Could there be other explanations or stones yet unturned, that would perhaps shed a light to these disappearances?
Jun 18, 2006 @ 07:10:34
that much mean that they were meant to leave... hmmm... but where, how and why? 
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