At the heart of absolutely any crime is a motive - something because of which it is committed. In the same way, any crime leaves some kind of trace. These are the basics of forensics, working reliably like a Swiss watch. However, sometimes even the iron laws of forensic science are at an impasse, as, for example, in the case of ... mass disappearances of people. Just. Without a trace. Where did they go? There are still no answers to these questions. We have prepared for you some of the most famous cases of mass disappearance of people. None of them have been revealed yet.
1. Eskimo village near the Angikuni reservoir
About eighty years ago, the entire population of the Eskimo village, which was located near Lake Angikuni, disappeared in Canada. About two thousand people from the Inuit tribe lived there. They were kind, peaceful, religious and open to contacts with the outside world people. It should be noted that the area was quite lively: in addition to several thousand Inuit, there were often hunters, fishermen, traders and many others.
On November 12, 1930, the entire village disappeared. Together. As if it had evaporated. This was told by one of the hunters, who often visited there. His name was Joe Lubbell. That morning, the man hurried to the village to the Eskimos to warm himself by the fire and drink hot tea. He was very cold, because there was a blizzard in the yard. Arriving at the village, the hunter noticed that it was too quiet there and no people were visible. His fears were confirmed: there was not a single person in any of the tents. The most creepy thing was the fact that the village looked abandoned just a few minutes ago: in some dwellings, food was even cooked on fire! The Inuit left all their belongings, weapons, maps. There was nothing!
Frightened in earnest (still not scared here!), Joe Lubbell hastened to get out of the terrible place. He reached the nearest settlement within a few hours' walk and immediately told the police about everything. They did not believe the man, deciding that he had a little frostbite in the brain. However, a squad of policemen advanced to the place where the Inuit used to live, and discovered everything that Joe had told them.
A strange fact: not far from the village, they found a whole pack of dead dogs, as well as a dug-out cemetery where dead members of the tribe rested. It was this that was the wildest in all history: dogs are the best friends of the Eskimos, without which it is impossible to survive in the conditions of the tundra. Dogs were considered sacred, they would never be touched by any Inuit. The same applies to the cemetery: among the Inuit people, ancestors were very revered, no one in their right mind would ever disturb their spirit. To this day, it is not known what happened in the village of Angikuni and where the two thousand people went. The most interesting: why did they not leave traces?
2. The village of Hoer-Verde
Almost a hundred years ago, a terrifying event took place in Brazil, the details of which are still not really known. About six hundred people lived in a small village called Hoer-Verde. One day they all mysteriously disappeared.
After there was no news from the village for a long time, a detachment of the Brazilian military went there. There was nothing and no one in Hoer Verde. All people seemed to have evaporated. In some places, fires were burning in the houses, food was on the tables. The most eerie thing in the whole story was the inscription that the soldiers found on the school blackboard inside the abandoned classroom: "NO SALVATION." Nothing more could be found. The mystery of missing people has not been solved so far.
3. Ship "Cyclops"
This ship was built for the naval forces of the United States of America shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. It was quite reliable and advanced for those times. However, this did not prevent the ship from mysteriously disappearing.
On February 16, 1918, the ship left the military port, which was located on the coast of one of the Latin American states, and went towards the American border. In addition to more than three hundred crew members, the Cyclops was carrying ten thousand tons of ore. Everything was fine, the dispatcher regularly telegraphed to the headquarters about the successful movement of the vessel. And then the signals stopped as soon as the ship entered the Bermuda Triangle zone. As you might guess, the Cyclops disappeared. Neither the wreckage nor the bodies of the crew members were ever found.
4. Lighthouse in the Flannan Islands
Not far from the eastern coast of the United Kingdom, in the North Sea, there is a small island archipelago - the Flannan Islands. At the moment they are uninhabited. Only an automated beacon operates there, which does not require the presence of people. However, this was not always the case.
In 1925, three keepers worked at the Flannan Lighthouse. Everything was as usual, they regularly gave signals to the courts. However, once a strong storm occurred in the archipelago, after which ships passing by began to complain about the lack of signals from the lighthouse. When the check finally got there, she found a clean workplace with lights on and working equipment. There were no caretakers. It is still unknown where they disappeared. Various versions have been put forward, the most probable of which is the death of the lighthouse employees in a severe storm. However, a clear answer to the question of where the caretakers disappeared has not yet been found.
5 Roanoke Colony
In the 16th century, the British founded a colony on Novaya Zemlya (the territory of the modern United States of America) called Roanoke. About a hundred colonists settled there with supplies, weapons and, in general, everything necessary for life. A few weeks later, the first ship from England arrived there. What his crew saw shocked him.
The colony was completely destroyed and destroyed. Not a single living or dead person was found there, nor were any traces of the battle found, except for the destroyed buildings. The letters "CRO" were scratched into one of them. What this means is still unknown.
One of the most likely versions of the disappearance of a whole group of well-trained, strong, healthy and armed colonists was a conflict with a local tribe of Indians, who were indeed known for their hostility to settlers from the Old World. However, the Indians themselves assured that they did not attack Roanoke. This disappearance has become one of the most famous in the world.
Recently, igloo-style hotels have become very popular. This article will focus on Igloos, which are located in Andorra, Switzerland and Austria. The peculiarity of these igloos is that That 3000 tons of snow from the Pyrenees and the Alps are used for their annual restoration
These igloos are the crazy idea of a desperate snowboarder who decided to spend the night in a makeshift igloo so he could be first on the slopes the next morning. The next morning, this man simply beamed with happiness. When they asked him: why does he shine and glow so much - he pointed to the slope and said: “Do you see this line on the slope? It was me." After this incident, many people followed his example. The next season, he built two Igloos, and gradually their number increased. That's how the whole village of Igloo was born. Now the whole company is building 12 Igloo Villages across Europe
At first, the Igloo was built in the form of blocks. This work took 2 weeks for each needle. The building was 8 feet high and 8 feet wide. Such resorts opened only at the end of January.
Later, the construction of the Igloo became rounded, which greatly accelerated the construction process and increased the level of amenities. But this is not the end. Artists are invited to the empty igloo to make furniture, beds, all sorts of decorations and a variety of items that will delight tourists. The construction of an entire village now takes only two weeks.
If you still decide to spend the weekend in the Igloo, you will be offered both heated igloos with autonomous stoves, and Igloos that will contain only sleeping bags. The temperature during the night will not fall below 0 degrees Celsius. If you get cold, you can jump into the outdoor jacuzzi. Prices for such a holiday start from 99? per night and can reach 440? New Year's Eve. Pretty cheap fun. But if you still decide, you will be delighted, and you will not regret a single penny.
The mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the Eskimo village Angikuni still excites the minds of people interested in the secrets of our planet, although more than 80 years have passed since then. To this day, no rational explanation has been found for this incomprehensible phenomenon.
Lake Angikuni
This event happened on November 12, 1930. Canadian hunter Joe Labelle(Joe Labelle) traded furs on the shores of Lake Angikuni. The lake has long been famous for rich fishing; trout and pike were abundant in it. And in the surrounding forests there were many fur-bearing animals. That is why this remote and difficult terrain attracted hunters and fishermen.
However, not everyone dared to go there for prey - sinister legends have been circulating about this area since ancient times. Old-timers said that evil spirits live on the lake, which from time to time remind the locals of themselves.
But it was the twentieth century in the yard, the legends were fading, and life went on as usual, and the most enduring of the hunters got to this remote corner of Canada. Among them was Joe Labelle, who had already returned from the lake with rich booty more than once.
He knew the surroundings well and always stopped to rest and warm up in the local fishing village, which, like the lake, was called Angikuni before returning. The local people from the Inuit tribe (this ethnic group is part of a larger group of Eskimos) were very friendly and hospitable. They were always ready to feed and warm the traveler.
Eskimo family. Photo from 1917
November turned out to be very frosty that year, the hunter was very tired and cold. With the last of his strength, he skied along the familiar road. On the outskirts of the village, he shouted a greeting from afar, notifying the fishermen of his arrival. What was his surprise when he did not hear in response not only human voices, but even dog barking.
Labelle made his way to the village with difficulty and went into the first house he came across. The stove was kindled, and on the table stood a pot of meat stew, still warm. But there was no one in the house, and there were no dogs in the yard. The hunter went into a neighboring house, then another, and another ...
He walked around the whole village, but everywhere there was the same strange picture - not a soul, but it seemed that people had left their houses just before his arrival. And they left in a hurry, abandoning their business. Somewhere on the hearth dinner was being prepared, somewhere untouched food stood on the table, in other houses the work begun was abandoned - harvesting skins, cutting a fur jacket.
But the strangest thing was that when leaving their homes, people did not take with them weapons, warm clothes, or food supplies. Indeed, in these harsh lands, no one has ever left home lightly. The second inexplicable detail was that there was not a single trace of people around the houses. But the tracks should have been clearly imprinted in the snow.
The hunter, despite being mortally tired, was so amazed by what he saw that he did not stop in the abandoned village. The sight of the settlement suddenly and mysteriously empty was shocking. Horror gave the hunter strength, and he was able to make a path of several miles to the nearest post office. Reaching the telegraph office, Labelle reported the unexplained incident to the Canadian police.
A few hours later, a detachment of mounted police reached the village of Angikuni. Along the way, they were joined by three more hunters who found themselves not far from the lake. Admand Laurent and his two sons, having heard from the police about the incident, said that they had witnessed a strange phenomenon the day before.
Two days ago, while camping, they noticed an unprecedented luminous object in the sky, which was slowly moving towards Lake Angikuni. He changed shape, taking the form of a cylinder, then a pointed spindle. The hunters assured that the luminous object was not like anything they had seen before - it could not be either the northern lights, or a cloud, or any other atmospheric phenomenon characteristic of these places.
Photos of these Eskimos are often published in articles about the mystery of Lake Angikuni. Although they have nothing to do with the missing village itself, they are just ordinary Eskimos of those years.
The police arrived at the scene carefully examined the village. They found a few more strange and ominous details that escaped the attention of the exhausted and frightened Joe Labelle. The local cemetery on the edge of the settlement was devastated.
Without exception, all the graves were dug up, and the bodies of the buried disappeared. This could not be the work of local residents - the Inuit treated their dead with trepidation, and disturbing the peace of the cemetery was an ancient taboo. But animals could not have done this devastation either - the graves were dug neatly, the burial stones were stacked in even rows.
Another shocking discovery was waiting for the police a hundred meters from the village. They found under the snow the corpses of sled dogs, which, according to a preliminary examination, died of starvation. It seemed incredible. After all, abandoned houses were full of food supplies. And the Eskimos have always considered sled dogs their main wealth, and would rather starve themselves than let them starve to death.
This inexplicable story became a sensation of the year, newspapers all over the world vied with each other putting forward more and more new versions of what had happened. The official version of the Canadian police did not suit anyone. It said that the Inuit tribe, guided by some of their practical or religious ideas, decided to migrate to another site.
But this did not explain any of the mysteries of the disappearance of people. Why didn't they seize things, weapons, food? Why did they let the dogs die? Why are there no traces left?
Nobody could offer a rational explanation for this riddle. The most common hypothesis was that the Inuit were abducted by aliens. No matter how implausible it may sound, but only such a hypothesis made ends meet. And only she could link the disappearance of people with the appearance on the eve of a strange flying object that no one had ever seen in this area either before or after the mysterious incident.
Angikuni Lake is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada, where terrible and inexplicable events took place in the last century: the disappearance of a prosperous Eskimo village.
On a chilly November evening in 1930, Canadian fur purveyor Joe Labelle wandered to a familiar fishing village to take shelter for the night. The night promised to be frosty, and without a roof over his head and warm stew, Joe would simply die. He had been here before and knew that the Eskimos were a benevolent people.
When shabby tents and dilapidated wooden houses appeared in the distance, the man shouted a greeting. There was no answer, which alarmed the traveler a little. After a few seconds, Joe realized that the barking of dogs was also inaudible and quickened his pace.
The village met the frozen man with dead silence: no people, no animals. The traveler saw smoke pouring from a chimney at a distance from a standing house, and went there. Inside, he found a still-warm oven and half-eaten stew.
Joe went around all the houses, but apart from food supplies, household items and weapons, he did not find anything. Even the fish store remained intact. It felt like everything was abandoned at once. But where could people go without vital things in such a cold season?
Deadly tired and cold, Joe Labelle was so shocked by the mysteriously deserted village that he did not want to replenish his strength with Eskimo supplies and moved towards the telegraph station, which was several miles away. He miraculously managed to get to the right place and telegraph the police about a strange incident.
It took a detachment of mounted policemen several hours to reach Lake Angikuni. On the way, they stopped for a halt, where the hunter Armand Laurent and his two sons joined them. Hearing that the police were going on some business to Lake Angikuni, he felt it necessary to tell them that a couple of days ago he had observed an unusual luminous object moving across the sky towards the lake and changing shape.
Arriving at the scene, the police were shocked by the new nightmarish details. The graves of the local cemetery were excavated, and the remains simply disappeared. Earth and tombstones were carefully stacked near each pit, eliminating even a hint of the work of wild animals. And it was unusual for the Inuit to desecrate the memory of the dead.
Another terrible find was the corpses of seven sled dogs, which, as it turned out, died of starvation. The Eskimos always treated their animals with respect, so this was also strange.
The press also showed interest in the mysterious story, but she failed to shed light on the solution.
The version proposed by the Canadian police suggested the usual movement for nomadic tribes, but she could not explain the dug up bodies, abandoned animals and left weapons. Perhaps the inhabitants of the fishing village were kidnapped
Do you think that the disappearance of several people without a trace is something out of the realm of fantasy? Oh no, there are a lot of unconfirmed cases of disappearances of people, and not just one person, but entire groups. We will talk about the most terrible cases.
A whole village of Eskimos on Lake Angikuni
On the shores of one of the largest lakes in Canada, Angikuni, there was once a fishing village of the same name, where about two thousand Inuit lived. Despite the fact that the village was in the distance, the locals always greeted guests warmly. Yes, and for hunters it was an ideal place: there are a lot of fur-bearing animals in the vicinity, so guests periodically visited the Eskimo village. And here is one of these - Canadian Joe Labelle, who liked to stay with friendly locals after hunting to gain strength.
However, about 90 years ago, the incredible happened: on November 12, 1930, Labelle, after hunting, habitually went to the village. The weather was very cold, but when Joe got to Angikuni, he was surprised to find that the village was empty! Fully. About two thousand people disappeared. Moreover, there were no signs of a hasty departure from the igloo: all things were in their places, and food gurgled in the bowlers. There were no footprints in the snow, although there was no snowfall and wind that day, so there was simply no way to cover them.
Labelle was frightened and, despite being tired and cold, went to the nearest telegraph office to inform the Canadian police about the mysterious disappearance of the inhabitants. But that's not all. When the police arrived, they discovered other terrible things: graves were dug up in the local cemetery, and a pack of dead dogs was found not far from the village. And this real barbarity is inexplicable: the Eskimos revered their ancestors, and considered dogs to be family members and breadwinners, so they would never do anything like that.
Later, hunters who were nearby that day said they saw a glowing object in the sky. Therefore, the most common theory of the disappearance of the inhabitants is abduction by aliens. True, there are other versions. So, other Inuit believed that they were kidnapped by the demon Torngasak, who controls evil spirits. The Eskimos make sacrifices to him, but the inhabitants of Angikuni have not done this for a long time. Of course, there is an official version of the Canadian police: the Inuit simply moved to the parking lot in another place. True, why they left all the supplies, devastated the graves and killed the dogs - these facts did not bother to explain.
Brazilian village Hoer Verde
Another horrifying story of the disappearance of an entire village. Soldiers of the national army arrived in Hoer Verde in 1923, but did not find a single local resident. 600 people simply disappeared. And here everything is like in a classic thriller: a radio was working somewhere, a fire was burning somewhere, half-eaten food was on the tables, and even a gun was found that had recently been fired. There was also a school in the village, but there were no children or teachers there. And the worst thing is that only one inscription remained on the board: "There is no salvation."
By the way, little was known about the village before: it seems that someone lived, but what the locals did is unknown. And now this information cannot be found at all, the network only has this mysterious story of the disappearance of 600 people, so what is the share of truth in it is unknown.
The ship "Cyclops" and its 306 passengers
The secrets and mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle have been haunting the minds of both scientists and science fiction lovers for decades. Here is another such mysterious story for you.
On February 16, 1918, the American ship Cyclops left Rio de Janeiro. On board were 306 passengers, as well as 10 thousand tons of manganese ore. Near Barbados, the ship stopped due to overload (the carrying capacity of the ship was 8,000 tons), but everything was calm, no alarms were received from the ship. However, that was the last time the ship was seen. The ship never showed up at its destination.
Careful searches yielded no results: the ship disappeared along with 306 passengers. No bodies or debris, in any way indicating a tragic incident, were found. So the reason for the disappearance of the "Cyclops" is unknown today.
The Flannan archipelago is located off the coast of Scotland. At the end of the 19th century, a lighthouse was built here, which illuminated the way for ships. The lighthouse has been operating to this day and has been automated for a long time, but caretakers once lived on it.
Three people were to be at the lighthouse at all times. However, on December 15, 1900, the Arktor ship did not see any signal from the lighthouse. The crew transmitted this information to the mainland, but the local authorities did not attach any importance to this. Only on December 26, people again visited the islands. And to their surprise they discovered that the caretakers were not there. The beds were made, the dishes washed, all the lighthouse doors were locked, and the clock stopped. The only oddity is the overturned dining table.
The caretakers were never found, and the last entry in the log is dated the morning of December 15th. The night before, there is a note in the diary that a severe storm is approaching the island, although ships and other stations passing by did not notice anything of the sort.
There are many versions of the disappearance of three people: from abduction by aliens, to a massacre, which tells that one of the caretakers stabbed the others and threw himself into the sea. However, none of them has been confirmed.
