Garig was born in Jerusalem on December 20, 1947. In his student years, he migrated to the homeland of his ancestors in Yerevan, entered the institute and plunged into the study of ancient languages. And in 1972 he managed to get to France, where he stayed forever.
Krikor was a poet, but he is not remembered for poetry. Bohemia knew him as a fanatical collector: in addition to a huge number of paintings, he was the owner of one of the largest collections of icons in the world. For the public, Garig was a generous philanthropist (thanks to his huge fortune). And learned people considered him a qualified art critic. In general, the public loved him.
Even Soviet patriots and pioneers treated him condescendingly, despite the flight. After all, Basmadzhan opened the Gallery of Russian Art on the Parisian Boulevard Raspail and often gave the Soviet Union masterpieces of Russian artists, which he himself bought at auctions for serious money. Therefore, when in the sultry summer of 1989 he disappeared without a trace, many of those who knew him sounded the alarm.
In 1989, the millionaire received another invitation from the USSR Ministry of Culture. At such a high level, it was planned to transfer 5 unique canvases to the Soviet Union. Gary agreed. He just needed to pick up a few paintings from Russia.
On July 27, Basmadzhan arrived in Moscow at the Rossiya Hotel and began to prepare for official events. He still had time to meet up with old friends, which he did. The son of his old friend and his wife visited the 703rd luxury hotel room. They remembered the past, planned the future... In the midst of the meeting, Garig caught himself. And muttering that he had a meeting with "important people", he jumped out of the room.
At the same time, Basmadzhan did not forget to assure his friends that this would not last long, and they could stay and wait in the room. Aikaza Kochar, the same guest, followed his father's friend with his eyes from the window of the 703rd. He noted that there was a suspicious type at the entrance. A moment later, beige Zhiguli drove up to the hotel. Immediately, a collector jumped out of the building. Another moment, and the car, relish starting, sped off into the distance. With her, the suspicious type also evaporated. The man and his wife waited for a family friend until the evening, but Basmajan Garabed Krikor did not return.
The investigation was carried out by the special services of different countries. The strangeness of the case was added by a mysterious call on August 1 to the Rossiya Hotel. An unknown man asked the duty officer if Mr. Basmadzhan's belongings had arrived. After receiving a positive response, incognito asked to book the 703rd number for the collector for another week.
There were many versions. The most popular are murder and kidnapping. While the investigation was going on, it turned out that the missing person was far from respectable, as many believed. It turned out that he bought antiques in the USSR and illegally exported them to Europe. He was engaged in speculation and financing of dubious organizations in his historical homeland, which the Azerbaijani criminal world really did not like. Therefore, the most likely reason for his disappearance is abduction. True, the mafia had a hand or the KGB - is unknown.
Agatha Christie
Her husband Archibald Christie was in the military. She did not have a soul in him. And he, a scoundrel, fell in love with another woman and left his wife. The nerves of the writer, who recently experienced the death of her mother, could not stand it. Christie had a nervous breakdown, and the doctors placed her in a hospital, however, soon Agatha was released under the guarantee of a certain relative.
The author of numerous cunning plans naturally managed to slip away. December 3, 1926 Agatha Christie fled in her car in an unknown direction. She didn't even take her dog with her, which she never left. The car was found 14 miles from home. Everything indicated that a fierce struggle had taken place in the cabin. The writer's husband was suspected of murder and arrested.
For several days, more than 500 people searched for the famous writer, but in vain. Most were sure that she committed suicide. Even Arthur Conan Doyle was looking for her. True, his method would certainly not be approved by Sherlock Holmes. The writer got hold of an Agatha Christie glove and went with it to an occultist. He assured that her mistress was alive. But he could not determine the location. Still would.
On December 14, she showed up at a sanatorium in Harrogate. The investigation never found out where she was. The writer herself also did not reveal the secret even in her 600-page autobiography. Doctors think that she herself does not know, since at the time of the loss she was in a state of passion.
Sigismund Levanevsky
Sigismund Levanevsky, a Soviet pilot and one of the first heroes of the USSR, was a participant and initiator of several extra-long flights over the North Pole. Levanevsky received the Star of the Hero as a participant in the operation to rescue the crew from the Chelyuskin steamer. It is noteworthy that Levanevsky did not save a single person due to problems with the aircraft, however, Stalin personally entered him on the list for awarding. Since then, Levanevsky has gained a reputation as the leader's favorite, and all his life he tried not to disappoint him, performing more and more new feats.
The idea of extra-long flights in those years, sorry for the pun, was in the air: France conceived the flight Paris - Khabarovsk, the Poles wanted to fly from Warsaw to Krasnoyarsk
In 1932, Andrey Tupolev developed an aircraft designed for long distances. Levanevsky immediately turned to Stalin to give the go-ahead for the flight Moscow - North Pole - San Francisco. In August 1935, a test flight took place towards the icy continent. Sigismund was in for a failure: during the necessary landing, his ANT-25 burned down.
After the accident, Stalin called all the participants to his office with explanations. At this meeting, Levanevsky stood up, called the ANT-25 designer Andrey Tupolev a pest and accused him of deliberately making such bad planes. From surprise, Tupolev collapsed under the table in front of everyone. The designer lost consciousness from fear.
The scandalous meeting did not put an end to the expedition. Moreover, the organizers were allowed to go to the United States and look for an aircraft capable of such a flight. But the Yankees did not have anything better. As a result, Levanevsky made his next attempt on an experimental Soviet aircraft DB-1 (long-range bomber "Academy"). The route has also been changed. The pilot first had to fly to Alaska, and from there go to New York. On board the plane were furs, caviar, some valuable painting as a gift to the US government and, according to rumors, gold.
The flight was rough. There was heavy cloud cover over the Barents Sea, the temperature was minus 35 and a strong headwind was blowing. The pilots could not see the surroundings, the cockpit windows were densely covered with frost.
After passing the pole, Levanevsky reported that the rightmost motor had failed. “We’re freezing,” it sounded then. “We are descending” ... “Everything is in order,” the last message was received, and the Yakut station breathed out and reported the excellent news to the Kremlin. As it turned out - in vain. The DB-1 board did not get in touch again.
According to one version, Levanevsky managed to fly to the coast of the United States (local Eskimos heard a noise similar to the noise of a motor boat). According to another, the plane deviated from the course and fell in Yakutia into Lake Sebyan-Kyuel, in 1982 an expedition was organized there by the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya.
Richie Edwards
The guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers was creative to the tip of the guitar and was regularly depressed, drunk and drugged flying with unicorns and sexy mermaids. So it often disappeared. Either in a binge, then in a rehabilitation center, or even in a clinic.
But one day he really disappeared. In 1995, before a grand tour in support of the new album, he, along with another member of the group, threw a grand party in a hotel room. At seven in the morning, having recovered a little, Richie remembered some business, which he immediately went to. Arranged to meet with a friend at the airport. But he didn't show up.
He checked out of a hotel in London, then was seen at his flat in Cardiff, Wales, then at the bus station in Newport. On February 14, a car was rented in his name, and on February 17 it was found abandoned near Soverne Bridge, considered a popular suicide spot. This does not stop Richie's fans from believing that their idol is alive, just tired of fame. However, after his disappearance, the group's fame only increased.
Vladimir Alexandrov
Back in 1972, Academician of the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev noticed the young scientist Vladimir Alexandrov and took patronage over him. And then he assigned a task to him, which at that time was considered unsolvable. The newcomer had to deal with the idea of modeling the dynamics of large atmospheric blocks. Instead of, like many others, just pretending to understand the topic, Vladimir sincerely caught fire. And he succeeded so well in solving the impasse that he led the work on modeling the global climatic consequences of a nuclear war. This brought him worldwide fame. In the world he was known as the author of the theory of "nuclear winter".
It was after his research and calculations that the danger of nuclear weapons was no longer perceived by the world as, for example, a possible attack by aliens who are capable of exterminating all life on Earth. Mankind clearly saw what would happen in the event of a war between the USSR and the USA, which would develop into a nuclear catastrophe.
The government of the Union did not doubt the loyalty of the scientist, therefore, regularly approved his trips to all sorts of international conferences, where Aleksandrov made fiery and frightening speeches. A big plus was the fact that he was fluent in English (for some reason with a Texan accent). In 1983, he convinced the whole world that even the use of only 30% of the nuclear weapons available at that time would put the life of all mankind under a big and fat question.
And it was very inconvenient for the nuclear powers. The ministers of defense of these countries actively convinced their compatriots that in the event of the outbreak of such a war, nothing threatens the Earth. It will be the same war as any other, only a little brighter and hotter. But unlike Alexandrov, they had no evidence, not even theoretical calculations...
In 1985, Alexandrov was again sent on a business trip over the hill. As always, having successfully delivered a speech at a scientific conference in Cordoba in Spain, the scientist went to rest in a hotel. A few hours before flying to Moscow, he decided to take a walk through the streets of sunny Madrid and disappeared forever. How, where and why could not be found out.
The story itself is very confusing. How could a prominent scientist associated with nuclear issues disappear without a trace. And in general, leave the hotel without the accompaniment of comrades from the KGB.
Dorothy Arnold
More than 100 years have passed since the disappearance of the American socialite, and the mystery has not been solved. Neither money, nor hundreds of journalists who loved her very much for regular informational occasions, nor serious family ties helped find Dorothy Arnold.
The girl's father was the American perfume magnate Francis Arnold. And he must have been very proud of his daughter. Because she loved to study. She graduated from a prestigious college and even mastered several languages. It’s not secular somehow ... In addition, Dorothy differed from other secular loafers in decent behavior. The girl did not allow herself any love affairs (as was believed before her disappearance), although she was at the most suitable age for this. The future heiress of millions was 26 years old.
On December 12, Dorothy woke up at 11 am. Putting herself in order, the girl went down the stairs from her room to the first level of a huge apartment in Manhattan. She warned her mother that she was going to get a cocktail dress for her sister Marjorie's upcoming party.
Dorothy had $61 with her. Apparently the party for the socialite was very important if she intended to spend more than half of the monthly allowance on a new thing. Her father gave her 100 dollars, which at that time was very good.
On that day, the girl met with several acquaintances. Then I went to the candy store. Then I went to the bookstore. I left with Notes of a Busy Girl. Then she went to a travel agency, where she asked about flights from America to Europe. Since then, no one has seen her again.
Dorothy's family went to the police only six weeks after the disappearance. Before that, the best private detectives were looking for the girl: hospitals, morgues, as well as all the reservoirs of Central Park were examined. The police were also instructed to find a certain man named John Grisham. As it turned out, a month before the disappearance, Dorothy fled from her parents to Philadelphia, where she lived for a week with 40-year-old engineer John Griscom. When the couple ran out of money, the girl pawned jewelry in the pawnshop. This allowed the police to reach out to Griscom. He was in Italy at the time. A relative of the Arnolds went to his hotel and began to threaten if John did not tell him where Dorothy was. He replied that Dorothy was depressed because of that. that several literary magazines refused to publish her story. Griscom suggested. That she could have committed suicide.
Then there were two more versions. One: Dorothy slipped, fell and lost her memory. And another: a socialite had an unsuccessful abortion, from which she died, and her corpse was buried (one former criminal stated that he was paid $ 150 to dig a grave in the basement of an apartment building and bury a girl who looks like wanted rich woman).
After the completion of the case, which ended in nothing, it became known that Francis Arnold cost the search for his daughter 100 thousand dollars.
Owen Parfitt
Throughout his life, the sailor Owen Parfitt traveled the world, even being captured by pirates. Because of what, he returned home to his native village Shepton Mallet with numerous injuries. His elder sister Susanna took care of him. Yes, it was easy. The 60-year-old former sailor spent most of the day in a wheelchair on the porch of the house. He loved to talk heartily about his adventures.
June 7, 1763 was supposed to be just as boring and endless as the previous few years. By evening, it became clear that a hurricane was going. The sky was overcast with clouds and the wind was picking up. The farmers hurried to clear the hay and herd the bustling chickens. They were helped by their children and wives. Owen's sister, looking out the window, put down her knitting and went to her brother's to take him into the house. On her own, a woman was not capable of this. To cope with this enterprise, she was always helped by a neighbor, for whom she went. The old man shouted after her to take her time. He wanted to stop the rain.
As the women walked towards the house, talking, they distinctly saw a man in a wheelchair on the porch. At some point, they got carried away and, turning to each other, stopped. When the elderly ladies continued on their way, they were surprised to notice that on the porch there was only an empty wheelchair, from the arm of which Owen's overcoat hung down.
A long search for the former sailor ended in vain. Numerous neighbors assured that they did not see any strangers.
Job type: Tasks in Elea: Voeld
Required conditions: outpost on Voeld
Starting location: Voeld
How to get: talk to Priya Blake
Meet Priya Blake
Voeld: Initiative Outpost
Priya is in the same housing unit (1) , which you enter after founding the outpost and talk to Edison's hologram. She needs your help to find the missing scientists.
Find information about the missing scientists in the laboratory
When looking for clues, don't forget to pick up turian frigate model near the room with Priya. Follow the navigation marker.
Use the scanner to find the crate in the lab (2) . Inside manual drilling machine. On top of the box is data block. An important message contains coordinates.
Go to the coordinates of the last broadcast
Go to the area in the east (3) . A grim picture is before you.
Explore everything and find clues
Scan broken vehicles (3) and several corpses for information that reveals they are the missing researchers. Death was due to electric shock. The vehicle was destroyed by some kind of Remnant weapon. Examine the nearby data block to get the scientists route plan.
Walk along the route planned by scientists
Navigate to a new waypoint (4) south across the valley. As the Nomad's tires crash into the frozen river, you see the Architect hovering over the kett outpost. The kett prudently left the area. In the battle with the Architect, you will have to rely only on your own strength and on the abilities of your partners.
Defeat the Relic Architect
Use heat lamps to keep warm during all stages of the fight with the Architect.
Talk to Priya Blake
After dealing with the Architect, return to the outpost and speak with Priya (1) . She has heard the news of your battle with the giant Relic and is sorry to have sent her people to their doom. Comfort her.
The most diverse scientific discoveries occur almost daily. But there are also such scientific facts that scientists have known for a long time, but even today they cannot give an explanation for them. Nazca lines, WOW signals, the ghostly lights of Marfa - this is not a complete list of secrets that remain closed to scientists today.
1. Nazca Lines
The Nazca lines are the world's most famous group of giant geometric geoglyphs in southern Peru. Since their discovery in 1939, the Nazca lines have remained a mystery to this day. Despite the fact that numerous theories have been put forward, no one knows why they were created, nor how they did it.
2. Water on Mars
Ever since scientists discovered the existence of ice on Mars, there has been a constant debate whether there was ever water on the surface of this planet.
3. Missing Stars
If you look at the amount of matter from which stars are formed in the universe, it is not difficult to conclude that there must be 10 times more stars. This is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of our time.
4 Missing Matter
It's not just the stars that are missing in space. For a long time, scientists have been trying to find out where the matter of the universe "disappeared". After studying gravity and the structure of the universe, scientists have found only 5% of matter from what it should be. This means that 95% of the mass of the universe is simply missing. This missing 95% has been called dark matter and dark energy. They are called dark because they do not emit electromagnetic radiation and therefore cannot be detected even with infrared telescopes.
5. Taos Hum
Taos hum is a low frequency sound heard in many places around the world. The sound, which is either like a hum or a diesel engine, is heard only in silence and cannot be picked up by microphones. Its source and nature remain a mystery.
6. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays
These cosmic rays have much more energy than any other rays discovered by modern science. So far, no convincing explanation for their existence has been put forward.
7. WOW signal
"WOW" is a strong narrowband signal that was discovered by Jerry Ehman on August 15, 1977 as part of the SETI program. The signal, which came from the region of the M55 star cluster, bore such a strong resemblance to an artificial signal that Jerry circled the characters on the printout and wrote "Wow" (WOW) next to it in the margin. Astronomers have been unable to find a similar signal again.
8. Bloop
Bloop is a low-frequency underwater sound that was recorded several times by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the summer of 1997. By the nature of the sound, it could be assumed that it was reproduced by an animal, but this animal must have had absolutely titanic dimensions.
9. Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex that no one has been able to decipher. The manuscript, written in an unknown language, dates from the early 15th century and was named after Wilfred Voynich, the Polish bookseller who purchased it in 1912.
10. Lights Martha
Inexplicable glowing balls, also known as the "ghost lights of Marfa", can be observed in western Texas, near the town of Marfa. Their erratic chaotic movements have been observed since 1883.
11. Mary Celeste
Maria Celeste is an American ship that was discovered off the Azores in 1872. There was not a single person on board the ship, and one boat was also missing. There were no visible reasons why the crew could leave the ship, all the sailors' belongings remained in their places.
12. Roanoke
Roanoke was an English colony on the island of the same name in the late 16th century. Like "Mary Celeste", the colony was found without a single inhabitant. Where about 120 people disappeared was never found.
13. Placebo effect
A colossal storm that has been raging in the atmosphere of Jupiter for several hundred years has a similar name. Its size is about 3 times the size of the Earth. The cause of the occurrence and the process of the course of the storm remain inexplicable mysteries.
Sometimes even the simplest things are mysterious. For example, such as .
It would seem that a famous person is not a needle in a haystack. Nevertheless, the fate of many famous people today remains a mystery, which gives room for numerous versions.
Scientists and inventors
On September 29, 1913, the famous German inventor Rudolf Diesel boarded the Dresden steamer in Antwerp to go to London to open a new factory. In the evening, he locked himself in his cabin and seemed to be getting ready for bed ... Subsequently, the hat and cloak of the inventor were found on the deck, but he himself was nowhere to be found. It is curious that for some reason the name Diesel did not appear in the passenger lists, the wallet and all documents also disappeared.
According to one version, Diesel fell into the water from the deck as a result of a heart attack. On September 30, a human body was indeed pulled out of the water, but there is still no unequivocal information that it was Diesel.
The Italian Ettore Majorana could probably become as famous as Albert Einstein, the author of the theory of relativity. However, fate was pleased to dispose of otherwise.
Ettore was born in 1906 in Catania, Sicily. At the age of four, he showed phenomenal mathematical abilities: the kid could solve the most difficult problems, and surpassed many adult mathematicians in this. The parents sent the child prodigy to a Jesuit school in Rome. After graduating from it, he entered the Lyceum, and at the age of 17 - at the University of Rome, after which he ended up at the Department of Theoretical Physics, headed by Enrico Fermi.
Majorana, already in her youth, was called "the genius of mathematics and physics." Fermi considered him the best of his students and had high hopes for him. During his work at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Majorana offered many scientific ideas that anticipated important discoveries. One of them was the hypothesis about the nature of the forces holding the atomic nucleus. In addition, the researcher created a theoretical model of the neutrino, invented mathematical objects (Majorana spinors), which at the end of the 20th century formed the basis of the theory of supergravity, and, finally, was the first to talk about the possibility of the existence of a neutron.
In 1933, a young man fell ill with gastritis. This affected his nervous system: he became very irritable, in conversations with friends and colleagues he often broke into a cry ... It soon became clear that this was a mental disorder. Majorana stopped going to work at the University of Naples, where he taught, and spent most of his time locked up at home.
In 1937 things seemed to improve. Majorana returned to teaching, published a scientific article ... But then he did a strange thing: he transferred all his money to an account in Naples and bought a ticket on a steamer that sailed on March 25, 1938 to Palermo. However, when the ship arrived in Sicily, the scientist was not on board. In the room of a Neapolitan hotel, a letter was found addressed to Majorana by his family. It read: “I have only one desire - that you do not dress in black because of me. If you want to observe accepted customs, then wear any other sign of mourning, but not longer than three days. After that, you can keep the memory of me in your heart and, if you are able to do this, forgive me.
Majorana's relatives, friends and colleagues had not had time to get used to the fact that he had committed suicide, when a telegram arrived from him, in which Ettore asked not to attach importance to the previous letter. After some time, another letter arrived: “The sea did not accept me. Tomorrow I return. However, I intend to leave teaching. If you are interested in the details, I am at your service. But he never showed up...
The police conducted an investigation. There were people who claimed that they met Majorana in Naples after it became known about the disappearance of the scientist.
Only in 1950 new circumstances surfaced in the case. Chilean physicist Carlos Rivera heard from an elderly woman who rented a house in Argentina that her son knew a man named Majorana. However, she could not provide any details. Another time, 10 years later, Rivera heard about Majorana from a waiter in an Argentine restaurant. The waiter said that he was a prominent physicist in Italy and sometimes visits this institution ... But just like the landlady, the waiter could not give any more information.
In the late 1970s, physics professor Erasmo Resami and sister Ettore Maria again tried to find traces of the disappeared scientist. They met the widow of the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, who said that in the 1960s she met Majorana in Argentina, at the home of sisters Eleonora and Lilo Manzoni, with whom he was friends. But later this woman flatly retracted her words, saying that she had only heard of Majorana. The Manzoni sisters flatly denied acquaintance with the physicist. Looks like there was a conspiracy of silence...
The mystery of the disappearance of the talented Soviet physicist Vladimir Alexandrov, one of the authors of the theory of "nuclear winter", has not yet been solved. In 1985, Alexandrov was at a conference in Spain, where he made a presentation. Just before returning to Moscow, he left the hotel for a walk - and no one ever saw him again. Many do not doubt that the scientist was kidnapped by representatives of the special services.
Politicians and businessmen
Robert Macmillan was 48 years old, he was one of the co-owners of the largest publishing house Macmillan.
On July 13, 1889, Macmillan climbed to the top of the Greek Mount Olympus. He was seen by dozens of people: for some time he stood on the very top of the mountain, waving his hand. But then suddenly disappeared. A thorough search was carried out, but the publisher was not found dead or alive.
In 1961, the son of the famous politician and banker Nelson Rockefeller, 23-year-old Harvard graduate Michael Rockefeller, who was fond of ethnography and anthropology, went on an expedition to New Guinea. He was looking for the lost Asmat tribe. One of the shamans told him that he saw a mask of death on his face...
An overloaded catamaran capsized en route. Michael's comrades managed to get to the shore, but he himself disappeared ... For some reason, the version that the young Rockefeller was eaten by cannibals from the Asmat tribe is more common than the seemingly more logical version of drowning.
In 1967, the world was shaken by the unprecedented case of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. On December 17, he went for a swim in Melbourne Bay and ... did not return. Versions have appeared that Holt was kidnapped by the CIA or Chinese intelligence services, and also that he deliberately staged the disappearance in order to escape with his mistress ... The Australians even had a saying “Make Harold Holt”, which means “disappear under mysterious circumstances”.
Musicians and singers
Connie Convers was known in the late 50s of the last century as a talented composer and performer. She performed on the New York music scene, but her work was not widely recognized. In 1974, going through a personal and professional crisis, Connie fell into depression. Once she sent farewell letters to all friends and relatives along with the lyrics and recordings of her songs, after which she left in an unknown direction. If she committed suicide, then there is no information about it.
Richie Edwards is a Welsh musician and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, who were popular during the 1990s.
Edwards, like many creative people, was mentally unstable. He could deliberately injure himself, suffered from depression, alcoholism and anorexia.
On February 17, 1995, Edwards' car was found abandoned in what has been called the "suicide last resort" at the Severn Bridge. Richie himself has disappeared. They say that he was seen here and there, for example, in the hippie commune in Goa and on the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, but it was not possible to verify the information. In 2008, Richie Edwards was declared dead.
If the disappearances of ordinary people often become just statistics, then the disappearance of celebrities remains in history. Inventors, children of magnates, politicians and pilots disappeared, giving rise to a trail of versions and conjectures with their disappearance.
Roald Amundsen
The legendary Norwegian polar explorer, the first to conquer the South Pole, the first person to visit both poles of the Earth, “Napoleon of the polar countries”, Roald Amundsen, in an interview on June 7, 1928, said about high latitudes: “There I would like to die, only let death come to me like a knight, will overtake me in the performance of a great mission, quickly and without torment.
The day before, his friend and companion on the Antarctic expeditions, Sverre Hassel, had died at Amundsen's estate. Amundsen did not want such a death for himself. Probably, it was precisely because of the thirst for risk that Amundsen agreed to participate in the expedition to rescue his old enemy Nobele, whose airship crashed over drifting ice.
It was decided to carry out the search expedition on the Latham seaplane. At 4 p.m. on June 18, 1928, he took off from the Norwegian Tromsø, but after a few hours, radio contact with the aircraft was cut off.
After the disappearance of the polar explorer, different versions of what happened began to appear - from an accident for technical reasons to the most incredible. The Norwegian aviator Riiser-Larsen, in his memoirs, spoke about a certain stoker who claimed that he communicated with Amundsen during a telepathy session.
In August 1928, a seaplane float was found, in October a gas tank was found, identified as a gas tank from a Latham. Where Roald Amundsen and his four companions disappeared is still unknown. The last expedition to search for a polar explorer was carried out in 2009, but did not lead to anything.
Michael Rockefeller
Michael was not the "golden boy" of his father - the richest citizen of America. He studied at the university, served in the army - everything, like people do. And then, while his father was busy with politics (at that time he was the governor of New York), he went on an expedition to New Guinea.
The place, I must say, is very exotic - the descendants of billionaires get here infrequently. Michael in the tribes was greeted with disposition, willingly changing their ritual and household artifacts for the shiny rattles brought by him.
But Michael, of course, did not want to take samples of the same type. He wanted the rarest, and therefore the best and most expensive. Those valuable artifacts that Rockefeller Jr. dreamed of were in a lost tribe of asthmatics ...
Before setting off on his last journey, Michael Rockefeller even went to see a shaman. He told him that he saw the mask of death on his face. It is not known for certain what Michael thought, but probably something like "I'm going to a tribe of cannibals - they have a death cult - their masks will become mine."
A grim omen was the indignation of local residents about the overload of the catamaran. They warned Michael about possible trouble. Michael did not heed - and went swimming.
It ended almost fatally. The raft capsized and people barely made it to shore. These places were also famous for their cannibal crocodiles, so Michael's associates were still lucky. Rockefeller himself disappeared.
The official version of the reasons for the disappearance of the world's richest heir has not yet been approved. It is believed, however, that he was eaten by cannibals, asthmatics, to whom he went for artifacts.
If so, then this can be taken as the last tribute - the cannibals of New Guinea eat a person out of great respect for him.
Raoul Wallenberg
This man was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 and is an honorary citizen of Australia, the United States, Hungary, Canada, and Israel. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg deserved such an honor by saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from being sent to the camp. He was last seen in Budapest on 18 January 1945 with his driver. Later, evidence appeared that the diplomat was seen in the Lefortovo prison by other foreign prisoners, and after that the new leadership actually confirmed that Raoul Wallenberg was in the Soviet Union as a prisoner. True, how the fate of the diplomat ultimately developed remained a mystery. The trace of Wallenberg is lost in 1947, when he was in one of the prisons.
According to the version described in the memoirs of KGB General Sudoplatov, Wallenberg was arrested on the personal order of Bulganin, and in 1947 he was killed on the instructions of Molotov. According to the general, Raoul Wallenberg was given a lethal injection, and his body was burned in the crematorium of the Donskoy Monastery.
There is also a version that Wallenberg is still alive. Former prisoners of the Ozerlag, the Poles Tsikhotsky and Kovalsky, claimed that they communicated with Wallenberg at one of the transit points. According to other testimonies, he was also seen in other camps and the Vladimir Central. The Poles also claimed that he was still alive in October 1959.
In addition, members of the Swedish commission who came to Moscow in 2000 in connection with the Wallenberg case did not rule out that he might still be alive.
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was the personification of what is usually shown in American films of union bosses. He made his way to the people from the very bottom of the social ladder and in 1952 became the leader of the freight transport union.
By 1957, corruption in his department had reached such a level that the US Senate established a special committee headed by Senator John McClellan, but it was only in 1964 that Hoff managed to “pin down”. He would have been sentenced to 8 years for attempting to bribe a member of the Grand Jury, the same year he received another 5 years for fraud with pension fund funds. However, out of 13 years, Hoffa served only five - in 1971, Nixon, by his power, reduced Hoffa's term to the served.
Hoffa was released, he was given a serious pension of two million dollars, but was forbidden to engage in trade union activities.
Then Hoffa decided to start where he came from and decided to return to the Detroit organization. However, he did not manage to carry out his plan. On April 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace. He was last seen in a restaurant parking lot in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Township around three o'clock in the afternoon. Before that, he called his wife from a payphone and said that he had been “thrown”. Hoffa's open car was found in the parking lot, but there was no trace of him. The disappearance of Hoffa is still considered a "talk of the town" in the United States, the story is played up in films and TV shows.
Sigismund Levanevsky
In 1937, at a meeting with Stalin, Sigismund Levanevsky stood up and said: "Comrade Stalin, I want to make a statement." "Statement?" Stalin asked. “I want to officially declare that I do not believe Tupolev, I consider him a pest. I am convinced that he deliberately makes sabotage aircraft that fail at the most crucial moment. I won’t fly on Tupolev cars anymore! ” sat opposite. He became ill.
This scene, described in the memoirs of another hero pilot, Baidukov, put the planned transarctic flight in jeopardy.
They decided to fly on an experimental aircraft DB-1. The next day after the start, Levanevsky reported on the radio about the failure of the right engine and bad weather conditions. He did not go on radio again. And no one saw him or the plane again.
There are different versions of what happened, but none of them has yet been confirmed. The search area for the aircraft stretched from Yakutia to Alaska. Last year, the Russian Geographical Society expedition found the wreckage of an unknown aircraft in Yamal, but there is no official confirmation that it was Levanevsky's aircraft.
Vladimir Alexandrov
Vladimir Alexandrov was a talented person - in science and in life. He spoke English with a Texan accent beloved by Americans and was the life of the party. On business trips abroad, he did not live in hotels, but with his foreign friends. He was appreciated for his extraordinary charisma and openness.
Aleksandrov was a theorist of "nuclear winter". In 1983, he and a group of scientists presented a report in which he convincingly proved that even the use of 30% of those existing at that time would endanger life on Earth, and the planet would not be able to return to its previous state.
In 1985, Vladimir Alexandrov took part in a conference in Spain. Before returning to Moscow, he decided to take a walk, left the hotel and disappeared. Nobody saw him again. The main version of the disappearance is that the physicist was kidnapped by special services.
Louis Leprince
We all know that the first film was made by the Lumiere brothers, but it's not. The first film, however, with a running time of just over two seconds, was shot in London by the French inventor Louis Leprince. The film was called Roundhay Garden Scene. It came out seven years(!) before the official birth of cinema.
Louis Leprince saw his main competitor for the priority of the inventions of the American Thomas Edison. And if Leprince was forced to get into debt for further work, then Edison was showered with loans like confetti. However, Leprince Edison overtook.
Before his disappearance, the Frenchman traveled to America, where he planned to find funding and, apparently, found it. Immediately upon his return from the States, he went to stay with relatives in Dugen, and from there he planned to go to Paris, take a train to London and patent his invention. In Dugen, he boarded a Parisian train and ... disappeared.
Versions of the disappearance, as usual, are different: from a conspiracy of competitors (along with Leprince, his equipment was lost) to the fact that Leprince staged a hoax of his disappearance, since his developments reached a dead end, and it was necessary to pay the debts.
This story would be incomplete without another interesting fact. In 1902, Alphonse, the eldest son of Lepres, arrived in New York to meet with Edison. The next day, he was shot dead in a hotel room. The door to the room was locked from the inside, but no weapons were found near the body.
Rudolf Diesel
The financial crisis of 1913 finally ruined the inventor Rudolf Diesel, but he still had hopes for a successful outcome. On September 29, 1913, he boarded the steamer Dresden in Antwerp and went to London to open his new factory. Rudolf Diesel was never seen again.
There are several versions of the disappearance. According to one - Rudolf Diesel fell from the ship during a heart attack. The body of a person similar to him was caught on September 30, but there is still no unequivocal recognition that the caught drowned man was Diesel.
There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the Diesel family somehow managed to fix the financial issue. Allegedly, they sold the patents of the disappeared head of the family. However, if everything was fine with the patents, why didn't Diesel himself sell them to save his family from starvation? The diesel engine was no longer the "miracle of the century." He was skillfully copied and his device was known.
Secondly, a lot of witnesses were interviewed in the disappearance case, but only three of them were competent: two friends of Diesel and a steward. All of them are united in their testimony, but Rudolf's friends could simply follow a pre-prepared legend, and the steward was simply bribed.
On the night before his disappearance, Rudolf Diesel locked himself in his cabin, finished preparing for bed (lay out his pajamas and hung a wound clock by the bed). His hat and cloak were found on deck.
It is also indicative that Diesel's surname was not in the passenger lists of the ship, and of the "things of Rudolf Diesel" found on the ship, there is not a single item that would belong to him with 100% certainty. No wallet, no passport, no notebook, no drawings.
Everything seems to indicate that the inventor did not enter the ship, and all the witnesses, including Diesel's children, could be interested in hiding the truth.
