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Vanishings!(2003–2004)
July 12, 20032 Seasons · 27 Episodes
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An exploration of some of history's most mysterious disappearances
Created by Nicolas Wright
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An exploration of some of history's most mysterious disappearances
2003
On December 5, 1945, Flight 19 had disappeared without a trace into the area that would become known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Foo Fighters maneuvered in and around bomber formations. Some believe that the 1943 U.S. Navy experimented with making ships disappear.
In October 1972, a rugby team and friends en route from Uruguay to Chile boarded a plane in Argentina for a 90-minute flight to Santiago.
On April 20, 1925, British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and friend Raleigh Rimmel set off from a Brazilian frontier town into the Amazon jungle in search of a lost ancient city.
At 2 p.m. on July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa arrived at the Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant, to meet two former colleagues to discuss winning back his old position.
On April 4, 1943, a flight of US B-24 Liberator bombers took off from a desert airbase in Libya. Their target was the harbor of Naples--750 miles away.
In 1938, Douglas Corrigan climbed into a single-engine plane for a nonstop flight.
In 1918, US Lieutenant Frank Luke took off to destroy German observation balloons.
On the morning of January 10, 1954, a British Comet, one of the first turbojet airliners, took off from Rome headed to London with six crew and 29 passengers.
June 1943, a civilian plane took off from Portugal, heading for England.
In 1967, Donald Campbell attempted to break the world water speed record of 276 miles per hour--one he set three years earlier.
On October 31, 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from southwest England on a round-the-world solo yacht race in a newly-built 41-foot trimaran named the Teignmouth Electron.
In August 2000, one of the biggest maritime disasters of modern times struck the Russian fleet in the Barents Sea.
In 1974, the Gaul had vanished! Built to withstand, why did she disappear?
The pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. In the summer of 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
In January 1941, 37-year-old Amy Johnson, a world-famous record-breaking pilot, took off in an Airspeed Oxford from an RAF base in northern England.
In 1928, Umberto Nobile, an Italian pioneer of aerial exploration of the Arctic, set off for the North Pole aboard the airship Italia, along with a crew of 16 men.
On August 2, 1947, the British airliner Stardust took off from Buenos Aires heading to Santiago in a flight that would take the six passengers and five crew members over the Andes.
On May 17, 1968, the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion was making her way through the Mediterranean returning to base at Norfolk, Virginia, when she received top-secret orders.
On June 7, 1924, George Mallory, a 38-year-old English schoolmaster, and Andrew Irvine, a 22-year-old university student, stopped to rest on Mount Everest, at 26,800 feet, before making the final ascent.
A pair of explorers vanish while climbing Mount Everest in 1924.
On November 6, 1935, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took off from an airport near London in a Lockheed Altair monoplane, the Lady Southern Cross.
Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb disappears during a mission to spy on a Russian ship in a British harbor.
A British aristocrat disappears after being accused of murder.
Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming at the beach.
A member of the British government walks into the ocean and disappears.
2004
A team of explorers vanishes for two years in Antarctica.
Stan Bernard
Narrator
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Amelia Earhart
Self (archive footage)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Roald Amundsen
Self (archive footage)
