The Village That Disappeared
An individual that vanishes is one thing, but how about an entire
village of 2,000 men, women and children? In November, 1930, a fur
trapper named Joe Labelle made his way on snow shoes to an Eskimo
village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in northern Canada. Labelle
was familiar with the village, which he knew as a thriving fishing
community of about 2,000 residents. When he arrived, however, the
village was deserted. All of the huts and storehouses were vacant.
He found one smoldering fire on which there was a pot of blackened
stew. Labelle notified the authorities and an investigation was
begun, and which turned up some bizarre findings: no footprints of
any of the residents were found, if they had vacated the village;
all of the Eskimos' sled dogs were found buried under a
12-foot-high snow drift - they had all starved to death; all of the
Eskimos' food and provisions were found undisturbed in their huts.
And there was one last unnerving discovery: the Eskimos' ancestral
graves had been emptied.
1918
USS Cyclops: the navy coal ship, used to deliver fuel and other
supplies to U.S. battlefleet during World War I, disappeared while
en route from Brazil to Baltimore. The ship docked briefly at
Barbados on March 34. When it failed to arrive in Baltimore on
March 13, a search was made, but neither her wreck nor any of the
309 people aboard were ever found, and the cause of her loss
remains unknown
1928
Köbenhavn: 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 Köbenhavn
and its crew disappeared without a trace and no one knows what
happened to it.
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
