4 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances | Answers With Joe

This video is backed by glossy books, remember, they're those things we used to read, but now use us toilet paper now that all of that is gone. The way books are published has changed a lot in the last hundred years, for example in the Victorian era. books were serialized, meaning they were published piece by piece and literary magazines and then consolidated into book form and the absolute master of the serialized book form was Charles Dickens. Dickens was known for his cliffhangers where he hooked people with fascinating characters and heartbreaking situations and got people invested in their outcomes, then they raised the stakes and then, just as a drama reaches a fever pitch, it just boom. , left him hanging, people were clamoring so much for the next installment of his story that while he published his book Little Dorrit, he left a cliffhanger in which the main character could have lived or died, no one really knew and when he published the next installment , people literally stormed the ships at the dock that were unloading the next installment of this book and a riot broke out today just write it about things that are important, like if our team wins a Super Bowl, the point of all this is that we , as human beings, we crave closure, we don't like it when things are left unanswered, we don't like it when things are unfinished and therefore, when things are left that way, we struggle to find any answer we can think of to give us some closure, even if that answer is available, so today we're going to talk about five

mysterious

deaths

and

disappearances

, some of which defy everything. explanation and some of which have quite surprising

answers

.

I'm putting together a video of

mysterious

disappearances

. There are a million options to choose from, many of which you have sent me over the years, but the five I chose here I chose because well. It's my channel and I thought they were interesting. I tried to mix them up between the famous ones you've probably heard of and the more obscure ones you may not have heard of. Some of them have perfectly rational explanations behind them. Some of them defy a whole reason, so I hope this is at least entertaining or thought provoking for you, let's get started.

Michael Rockefeller came from a relatively wealthy family. Maybe you've heard of them. They were, you know, the Rockefellers. His grandfather was the oiled tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who became. the world's first billionaire in 1916, his father John Dee's son was Nelson Rockefeller, who was Gerald Ford's vice president, so yes, rich people in politics is not a new thing, yes, Michael Rockefeller just got handed the entire world, he could literally do anything he wanted. He wanted to travel a lot with his life, he went to school at Harvard, he graduated in 1960 with degrees in economics and history, no big surprises there, and during some of his trips he became fascinated by anthropology and the primitive arts, so when an old classmate of his from college university asked him if he would join him to help him in the documentaries filmed by the tribes in New Guinea.

He took the opportunity that the film was called Dead Birds and was filmed in 1961 by his friend Robert Gardner and served as a sound engineer on the crew and while there, Michael was able to live and study with the Asmat people and became so fascinated by them and their culture that when he returned to the United States he immediately began preparing for another trip to return there and yes, after a month or two of preparation, he jumped. on a plane to return to New Guinea to take photographs and collect some of his primitive art and he was never seen again, but before we get into what happened to him, let's talk for a second about the Asmat people, what was it about this tribe?

That fascinated him so much, what was it that could make someone who could literally do anything he wanted in the world drop everything and go live in the jungle with him? Could it be because they share wives or because they drink urine during bonding rituals? maybe it was a practice of killing their neighbors, their rituals of head hunting and cannibalism, yes they were known to do all those things, but they also had an extremely complex language with 17 tenses and were known as master carpenters, in fact , his carvings are very popular with Art collectors around the world, including Michael Rockefeller, he had planned to make a book of photographs about the people and create the world's largest asthma art exhibition, but then, in November 1961, He disappeared.

This is what we know. Michael and a small team of researchers. They were crossing the best river on a catamaran and a strong gust of wind knocked it over, they couldn't get it right again, so everyone clung to the hull for the night. According to others on the boat, the next morning, Michael decided he was. He was going to swim to the river bank, which was a good three or ten miles away, but he was a strong swimmer and thought he could make it, so Michael swam away for help and that was the last time anyone saw it.

Now the obvious assumption is that he drowned in the river, but after an exhaustive search the body was never found, leading to two main theories: one, his body was consumed by a crocodile or a river shark and two, it was devoured by local tribes who were again totally cannibalistic, so New Guinea was territory of the Netherlands at the time, so the Dutch authorities were the ones who carried out the investigation and in their investigation they spoke to a couple of priests who Michael was on his way to visit and they seemed pretty convinced. that Michael was murdered and eaten by cannibals from the region and they even believed that it was done as an act of revenge for a shooting that occurred four years earlier which in fact one of the priests named Cornelius van Kessel wrote in a report in all- caps quote en surely Michael Rockefeller was murdered and eaten by Otts janap.

It's possible he just sneezed at the end. His kessel van even provided names of people in the local tribes who he believed had parts of Michael's body, but for one reason or another, the Dutch authorities did not think these priests were trustworthy and did not follow up on that, so Michael Rockefeller went to a dangerous place and something bad happened to him. I mean a lot of animals could have eaten his body after he drowned in the river and maybe he washed ashore or something and it's a very large area, it's very possible that he washed up somewhere and was never found, so the story would have ended there, except for a documentary that was made eight years later.

In 1969, a film crew was filming footage. Díaz met people who were just doing their basic daily things, hunting, canoeing, cooking that kind of thing, but in one shot of the men in canoes something stood out: a white man with a beard or at least an unusually pale man with a beard which was unusual for the Asmat people this question was raised in 2011 with a documentary called The Search for Michael Rockefeller where they speculated that maybe he had joined the tribe maybe he wanted to get away from civilization and do that or maybe even They installed him as a wizard in their culture because they believed that white people were imbued with magic at that time, magic that we call technology, so maybe he survived or maybe he's just a pale guy with a shadow across his face and some old images and grainy, the mystery is The Highway of Tears still considered unsolved is a 724 kilometer stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada, and runs between the cities of Prince Rupert and Prince George.

It earned its name because it has been the site of dozens of mysterious disappearances and

deaths

between 1969 and 2011. most of which are indigenous tribal women, there are 23 First Nations bordering Highway 16, poverty is rampant there, the Most families don't have enough money to pay for a car, so hitchhiking is common - in fact, public transportation didn't even get there until 2017. They are often seasonal migrant workers who travel to work in nearby canneries. . This was the case of Alberta Williams in 1989, she was a 21-year-old woman who worked in canning factories and Prince Albert, when she disappeared in the summer of 1989, was One day she was drinking with co-workers in a bar after the work and, according to some witnesses, when he left he got into a car with his uncle and a non-indigenous man.

Her body was later found in the bushes along Highway 16 on September 21, 1989. She had been sexually assaulted and murdered. Her death was obviously tragic but it did prompt some investigations into other mysterious disappearances that had occurred throughout that road nine young women all of them indigenous but one was reported missing or murdered on this road from 1989 to 2006 In October 2007, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police expanded their investigation to include 18 women and also included sections of highways 97 and 5, but indigenous groups in the area say that number of 18 is actually misleading and is actually much closer to 40, in fact. Human Rights Watch says British Columbia has the highest number of unsolved murders of indigenous women in the world, so the case now ranges from 1969 to 2011 and yes, the number of them may exceed 40 people now because there is a concentration very high of these cases in this Speculation in the area has run rampant, from serial killers to satanic cults and more paranormal things like Bigfoot and windigos.

Authorities do not believe he is a serial killer because there are no real links between the murders and it has been going on for so long that it is impossible. It was just one person who did everything, unfortunately the most likely answer here is just an area with many easy targets, poor young women from marginalized and ignored communities, with infinite space to bury the bodies and many animals to consume them if necessary. You're a human predator that's as good as it gets. There were some convictions for the murders, such as Cody, 21, with a legible cough, who was arrested in 2010 for the murders of Laura and Leslie.

Further investigation discovered that they knew he was also involved in three others. murders in the area received a life sentence in 2014, last year Gary Taylor Hanlon was found guilty of the murder of 12-year-old Monica Jack. In 1978, she disappeared while riding her bicycle near the town of Merritt Hamlin. He was also charged with the murder of 11 year-old Katherine Mary Herbert, who disappeared in 1975 and Bobby Jack Fowler killed one victim in 1974, he was a strong suspect in the deaths of two other people in 1973 and possibly seven others. people on the list; However, Fowler died in a US prison in 2006.

There has now been some controversy about the extent to which Canadian authorities have been taking these stories seriously because they occur to indigenous women. Critics argue that cases involving white women receive much more press attention, which attracts more attention from the police, meaning they are more likely to be solved. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened a $50 million investigation into these cases in 2015 and part of these investigations are looking into allegations of police misconduct, which has been a typical refrain of the First Nations living in that area, but As of As of this video, many of these cases remain unsolved.

On January 27, 1959, seven men and two women set out on a hiking trip to the Ural Mountains in Russia. The plan was to leave a city called viiay and walk to the top of the mountain called otorten. It was going to be a 14 day trip covering 190 miles. Most of the group where the students are graduates of the Euro Polytechnic Institute, they were all considered expert skiers and hikers, but they never made it anyway and the reason remains a mystery to this day. On the face of it, you know that the disappearance of people during a two-week hike across 190 miles of mountains in the middle of the Russian winter may not seem like much of a mystery, but the circumstances surrounding this particular expedition are super . weird and has become something of an internet phenomenon, in fact you've probably heard of this before if you like watching mysterious content, but yeah, they left on january vii and originally there was another member of the group named Yuri Yudin, but he fell in love. sick at first and returned home before returning, the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov, told him that he would send him a telegram when they returned to viiay and that he hoped it would be around February 12, but it could be longer by the time February arrives. .

The 12th passed and no one thought it was a big deal, but as the day went by the group's relatives began to get a little worried and demanded an investigation. The first rescue groups were volunteers who were left out. Later on February 20, the army and The police got involved on February 26, found the group, but this is where things get weird. Searchers found a tentabandoned and badly damaged that still had all her things, including her shoes, was covered in snow and, even more strange, was cut down. Internal footprints led to nearby woods where they found the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonishenko near the remains of a burned fire and, strangely, they were only wearing underwear.

The branches of a nearby tree were broken up to 16 feet high, so investigators suggested. that possibly they went up there looking for something, then found traces of skin on the branches, which in a way confirmed that the theoretical searchers found the body of Agora, love and calm, the next day between the forest and the tent, and Slobodan was found on March 5, all three. It seems that many of them were trying to get back into the store and the three of them, like the others, were only in their underwear. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death as hypothermia.

Now the fact that they were found in only their underwear is strange, but it has a rational explanation. It is called paradoxical undressing and it is actually something that often happens in the later stages of hypothermia, when nerves are damaged, brain functions begin. To decrease, a sensation of extreme heat is created, so people, thinking that they are burning, begin to remove their clothes, which, of course, only accelerates the problem, but as the risk of the bodies being burned increased found over the next few months, even more mysteries began to appear. Other members took longer to find them because they were actually in a snow-covered ravine about 250 feet from the woods and were also just a few feet from a makeshift shelter.

They were better dressed than the others, but had fatal injuries such as skull injuries and chest fractures. One of them was missing her tongue, but despite these internal injuries, a doctor suggested that they are at the same level of strength that you would expect in a car accident, you know, they suffered no external injuries, everything was inside and such. Perhaps strangest of all, some of their clothes were radioactive. The official government wording at the time was that Dyatlov made some critical mistakes and that the group was overwhelmed by overwhelming forces of nature. Some of this makes sense of what the boy talked about when he was stripped, that can be explained because the missing tongue was probably from an animal that they got to the body that happens. quite often, but some of them mix up these other strange pieces of evidence that were out there, which has led to some pretty wild speculation, do you know why they abandoned their tent and so violently, literally, cut themselves and just walked out, how could they?

Have you had internal problems? wounds with no external injuries and what happened to the radioactive pants one theory is that they were attacked by the Mansi which is an indigenous tribe that lives nearby but they are a peaceful group and there was no evidence to indicate that they were attacked in any way. As far as I know, wild animals attacked them, but again there were no wild animal tracks anywhere. There was nothing to indicate what could have happened. Some think they may have eaten some psychedelic mushrooms. I got disoriented. Something, possibly an avalanche killed them. but the area they were in had a very slight slope so it wasn't very likely, plus what their diaries said the snow was light at the time and of course people resort to supernatural responses like an attack from Yeti which again There was no evidence of any type of animal attack whatsoever and of course some people think UFOs are the answer.

Interestingly, there are some testimonies from other hikers in the area who said they saw orange balloons in the sky at the time, but this actually leads to one of the more interesting theories, which is that the Soviet military may have been conducting some exercises. military in the region at the time dropping water known as parachute mines and these are mines that detonate in the air and are known to cause internal injuries but not external injuries and bodies on the ground and then there is the idea that infrasound may have caused their deaths. There is a wind phenomenon known as the Karman Vortex that can create some scary sounds that disorient people.

The wind blowing in the past may have been worked when they hit the side of a mountain, which could have created small mini tornadoes that had a deafening noise, but under certain conditions this can actually create an infrasound sound that is too low to We hear it, but we still experience it in other physical forms, according to studies. It has been shown that it can have effects such as loss of sleep, fear and difficulty breathing. Filmmaker and author Donnie i-car believes it might have been a combination of these things, the noise from the tornado, the infrasound, and the darkness in the area, that may have created Honestly, this theory is the most interesting to me, but It is still unproven and the case remains unsolved.

The Mary Celeste was a 282-ton brig that sailed from New York to Genoa, Italy, on November 7, 1872 aboard her. where Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah and daughter Sofia, as well as a crew of seven were transporting 1,701 barrels of denatured alcohol and approximately a month later, on December 5, the ship was found floating about 400 miles east of The Azores and Portugal crew from the British Brig de Gracia boarded the Mary Celeste and what they discovered or did not discover has been a mystery ever since and what they did not discover was no one the ship was completely abandoned and apparently abandoned in a hurry because All of his personal belongings were completely undisturbed.

There were still six months of food and provisions left on the ship. Captain Briggs. His cabin was completely intact until his daughter's cleft was still in bed. The last entry in the captain's log was set for the 25th. November saying that they were about six nautical miles from the Azores it was as if everyone had disappeared, the surveying crew even pointed out that the crew of the Mary Celeste left their tobacco and pipes and apparently that is not something a sailor does, could you have been? pirates are not likely to have taken anything all their valuables were still there the cargo on the bottom was completely intact with the exception of a barrel of alcohol that was spilled and three feet of water was found on the bottom due to a bomb broken and a frayed rope trailing behind the back of the ship, but other than that there were no signs of unexplained foul play, the authorities simply chalked it up to an abandoned ship and towed it back to port and that should have been The ending of The Story of María Celeste should have faded into history and would have done so except for a short story that was published thirteen years later.

It's a short story called The Statement of J. Habakkuk Jason and it was written in 1884 by Arthur Conan Doyle, who you may have known. heard of him he has written things like The Lost World Sir Nigel maybe you have heard of Sherlock Holmes the story is about a revenge-seeking ex-slave who killed his fellow travelers and then escaped on a ghost ship known as the Marie Celeste The popularity of the story revived interest in theories about the real Mary Celeste and these theories range from crazy to one that says the ship was attacked by a sea monster because of course they were legends about giant squids and killer whales and Krakens were popular among the seafaring world in those days. but there was no evidence of anything like that happening on the ship, the ship did not suffer any damage.

Some suggested that the ship was haunted by a real ghost who may have scared the crew away or just taken them to the other side and this was totally out of character, there was a captain who had died on the ship beforehand. She was originally named Amazon but then she ran aground and the accident killed the captain and she was then renamed Mary Celeste so some people speculated the previous captain. was still there stalking the ship or just that the ship was cursed because it had some tragic events in the past now returning to land, some people speculated that it might have been a mutiny of some sort but again there was no evidence of any physical altercations. there and the captain's log did not seem to know it.

Note that there were suspicions of a mutiny on board. Now the most likely scenario is that the crew abandoned ship for one reason or another because there was evidence of that. I cleverly left it out for narrative purposes earlier and that is that a lifeboat was missing, so they definitely abandoned ship, but what could have happened that caused him to abandon ship in such a hurry that they didn't even take his most personal belongings? ? The answer one way or another probably has something to do with that spilled keg of alcohol, now a theory that was examined by dr.

Andrea Sela at University College London was that the vapors of that alcohol could have exploded due to a spark possibly from a crew member opening the door or while smoking a pipe, an experiment that showed that it would not be enough to leave soot. or actually damage the ship, but it could be strong enough to open the hatches, which could have been enough to scare people into abandoning ship. Now another theory suggests that as they began to sail toward lower latitudes and the temperature began to change, that alcohol in the background. It may have started to evaporate much more quickly and then came with higher humidity in the air.

Some fog or mist may have formed which the sailors interpreted as smoke, so, thinking the ship was on fire, they rushed everyone to the lifeboat. Both things are possible but the problem I have with both is that like I said before they found a tattered rope tied to the back of the boat and they think they may have tied the lifeboat to that rope and I'm not sure. whether they would do that if they thought the ship was exploding or on fire, so here's my theory. My theory is that the barrel of alcohol was spilled and then, as they entered warmer climates, it began to evaporate much more quickly and probably created enough fumes that it became difficult to breathe on the ship, so the captain ordered everyone in the lifeboat they tied the boat to the back of the ship thinking they would give it a little time to air out and this would explain why no one brought their personal stuff with them, they just thought they would be there for a few minutes maybe only half an hour or so and then once they got into the lifeboat, for some reason the rope came untied and the boat with sails still up caught a breeze. and just say all the way, imagine being in that lifeboat and watching this ship get smaller and smaller in the distance as you realize it's tragic, but imagine if the greatest mystery in maritime history was reduced to a poorly tied knot now of course there are many mysterious disappearances that could have appeared on this list and who knows if this video becomes popular I might make another one so write your favorite in the comments below or should I say the one more like you.

It's intriguing, you shouldn't have a favorite death, but I will say that I struggle with this one quite a bit because a lot of these mysterious disappearances aren't as mysterious to me as a million Earharts. I mean, tragic, of course, but I mean there's no mystery. There, to me, I'm sure his plane crashed over the ocean. Why didn't they find the plane? Because she crashed over the ocean. Jimmy Hoffa, made a lot of enemies, pissed off a lot of mob guys, how could that have gone wrong? In fact, there is a whole genre of missing persons cases that go into the missing category.

In one of them, many people asked me to make a video about it. You could say he was an inspiration for this. video, but what's missing on the one hand usually focuses on people who disappear in national parks and you know why they disappear, what could have happened to them that type of thing and the examples and theories usually turn into paranormal things like UFOs, aliens , crypto creatures or you know, conspiracy theories, hidden agendas, things like that, but again, that's not a mystery to me, you know that national parks are wilderness areas where a lot of people go who are not used to being in wilderness areas. , many national parks are filled with challenging terrain and predatory wildlife.

I mean, I'm not trying to make light of the tragedy, but I don't think you have to go into woowoo territory to explain it, don't get me wrong. I love a good mystery as much as any other guy I know. I love a good alien story. I love a good Bigfoot sighting, but to me what's most interesting are just the little mistakes, the little you know, the things you overlook that end up making the difference between life and death, between being alone. one more day and a tragedy like that. Mary Celeste, this may all have come down tonot untether, but that's how life works.

You know, we like to apply the biggest, most sensational

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