Disappearance (redirected from Forced disappearance)

Disappearance

See also Abduction.

Arden, Enoch

missing for many years after being shipwrecked, returns to find his wife remarried. [Br. Poetry: “Enoch Arden”]

Atlantis

submerged legendary island kingdom; never located. [Classical Folklore: Walsh Classical, 37]

Bermuda Triangle

area of mysterious disappearance of ships and planes at sea. [Am. Hist.: The Bermuda Triangle]

Bierce, Ambrose

(1842–1914?) journalist and short story writer; disappeared into Mexico in 1913. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 294]

Crater, Judge

(Joseph Force Crater, 1889–1930?) Judge of N. Y. Supreme Court; vanished August 6, 1930. [Am. Hist.: RHD]

Drood, Edwin

nephew of John Jasper; mysteriously vanishes. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood]

Earhart, Amelia

(1897–1937?) aviatrix vanished in 1937 amid speculation and gossip. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 819]

Hoff a, Jimmy

(1913–1975?) Teamsters’ boss kidnapped and presumed dead. [Am. Hist.: Facts (1975), 573]

Louis XVII (1793–1795?) “lost

dauphin”; heir to French kingship imprisoned and probably abducted. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1617]

Mister Keen

tracer of lost persons. [Radio: “Keen” in Sharp, IV, 354]

Prospero’s banquet

vanishes after being shown to the hungry castaways. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Tempest]

Roanoke

Carolina settlement that twice vanished, leaving no trace (1587). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 430]