Do you think people can just disappear?

[louise4745]

Lots of missing cases with no explanation.

Aliens?
Assassinations?
Government coverups?
People needed for testing?

Very weird.

I was thinking about this the other day and I thought how awful it would be if you went through a time warp, like a worm hole, and when you realised what had happened and tried to get back to 2021, you couldnt. Everyone who knew you here just put you down as a missing person but you werent missing, just lost in time. How horrific!

Unfortunately I'd say most are victims of foul play, rather than any of the reasons listed in your OP.

It's the cows

Cows are evil

I would quite like to disappear but not really if you know what I mean. Just reinvent myself and live somewhere else, a new start. The chances are I would bump into someone I know :-). It's a nice thought though.

Cows are evil
Cows are the good guys.

@Completelyfrozen have you read A Place Called Here? All the lost people and things are in an alternate reality!

Obviously meant to bold the first line.

@JaneJeffer

Cows are evil Cows are the good guys.

@Completelyfrozen have you read A Place Called Here? All the lost people and things are in an alternate reality!

I've not read that book, but I'm about to look it up now

@JaneJeffer

Cows are evil Cows are the good guys.

@Completelyfrozen have you read A Place Called Here? All the lost people and things are in an alternate reality!

Yes, and I think it may actually be the worst novel ever written. It certainly makes PS. I Love You look like Anna Karenina.

People can and do disappear, sometimes because of foul play, sometimes an accident, sometimes because they want to.

I'm not sure but it sounds pretty tempting right now.

A relative of mine went missing in the 90s.

He either made a new life somewhere, killed himself, had an accident or was murdered.

It’s never crossed any of our minds that it could be something out of a science fiction novel.

Have you read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon?? You should!

This is the opening of the book:

"People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread and butter to journalists. Young girls run away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish into the smoke of imported cigars. Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. Usually."

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I have always thought that unless you are killed and disposed of, then disappearing must be quite difficult? How would you start afresh somewhere, without identification, documents, money, bank account etc? Unless you'd saved lots up and previously got hold of a new identity.

I always find missing people cases very sad, but also fascinating in a way - if that doesn't sound too weird - that people can just seemingly vanish in a country where there is so much cctv etc.

I do think some of the missing probably don't want to be found, but then, it must be very hard to create a new life from nowhere.

The missing cases that have always stuck in my mind have been :

Andrew Gosden,
Claudia Lawrence,

Suzy Lamplugh (the work that her family have done in setting up her trust is really amazing, it's certainly made me feel me cautious about times when I've been lone working and there should be more support out there for lone workers who could be in vulnerable situations).

I think deliberately disappearing nowadays is much harder than 20 years ago - mobile phones, cctv, better info sharing, the internet, photo sharing etc.

Faking a passport wasn’t so hard in the old days. Also being able to disappear abroad.

I also wonder how many are imprisoned like Natasha kampush Elizabeth fritzl and jacee dugard but have never escaped- probably over a hundred for every one that has come to light.

Also in the old days of people having coal fires at home disposing of bodies would have been easier.

There are also huge swathes of countryside where a body could be buried and never found.

Look at the Suzanne Pilley and Margaret Fleming cases.

@Completelyfrozen

I was thinking about this the other day and I thought how awful it would be if you went through a time warp, like a worm hole, and when you realised what had happened and tried to get back to 2021, you couldnt. Everyone who knew you here just put you down as a missing person but you werent missing, just lost in time. How horrific!

Not the worst year you could be permanently detached from

I would love to disappear I have been giving it a lot of thought and I would like to go and live in a small cottage somewhere in rural Yorkshire or the Scottish islands with no one who knows me but I can't see how to do it without some way of getting a false new identity and enough money to live a simple life. But since I have no way of doing this it's impossible

@sarahandduck18 surely burning someone on a coal fire would not go unnoticed, the smell would be horrible and wouldn't go unnoticed?

All the lost people and things are in an alternate reality!

True enough... but this is the alternate reality.

I don't think so. When you think how long the victims of Fred and Rosemary West were buried under their garden, I just think that most missing persons are dead and have been buried somewhere.

Andrew Gosden is such a mystery. WHERE did he go??

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
No they're not. It's sheep, they're the evil ones. Have you seen their eyes?

On a more serious note - you can fall off a boat and never be found. Plenty of other places where you'd not find the body. Also with the right kind of ground a body would break down quite fast.

Who was the guy who faked his own death but was found years later abroad?

John Darwin!

Canoe man ?