About This Quiz
Forget ghost stories — the most terrifying tales tell of real people who seemingly vanished from sight. Take our quiz to test your knowledge of famous disappearances, past and present.Dare was the first child born to English parents in the New World. She was born in the Roanoke colony in 1587 and disappeared along with the rest of the colonists shortly after.
The word "Croatoan," the name of a Native American tribe and nearby island, was carved into a tree. It was the only clue to the disappearance of the colonists in Roanoke.
Anderson was one of many women who falsely claimed to be the missing Anastasia Romanov, daughter of a Russian czar, who was killed in 1918.
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DNA testing performed in 2009 revealed that Anastasia and her brother Alexei died at the same time as the rest of their family and were buried in a separate grave nearby.
Journalist and author Ambrose Bierce is just as famous for his mysterious disappearance as for his writings.
Bierce left for Mexico at age 71 in 1913 and was never heard from again.
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Named for his father, young Charlie Lindbergh was kidnapped on March 1, 1932.
The kidnappers asked for $50,000, which the family paid. Sadly, the child's body was discovered 72 days later in the woods.
Earhart attempted to fly from Miami to Howland Island when she mysteriously disappeared in 1937.
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While Earhart gets all the attention, her navigator Fred Noonan was also lost that day.
The three inmates traveled through air vents and climbed down a chimney to escape Alcatraz in 1962. Despite an extensive search, the men were never located.
Cooper hijacked a plane and ordered the crew to fly to Mexico on Nov, 24, 1971.
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Cooper demanded and received $200,000 and four parachutes before jumping from the plane between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.
Around $5,800 of the marked bills washed up in the Columbia River in 1980, but Cooper himself was never located.
Youth International Party leader and author disappeared in 1974 before turning up seven years later with a new name and reconstructed face.
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Former Teamster leader Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, and the location of his body remains a mystery.
James Riddle Hoffa was last spotted in a restaurant in Detroit, Michigan.
The Mary Celeste was heading from New York to Genoa, Italy, when its entire crew vanished in 1872.
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The U.S. teenager vanished after a night at an Aruba bar in 2005.
U.S. Army Air Force Band leader Glenn Miller was flying from England to Paris when his plane disappeared. His remains have never been found.
Christie vanished for 11 days in 1926 before she was spotted at a hotel spa in England.
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Lord Lucan vanished shortly after the murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, in 1974.
Fawcett was exploring the Amazon in Brazil when he disappeared in 1925.
Fawcett and two other men were searching for El Dorado, which Fawcett referred to as the "City of Z."
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Holt was the prime minister of Australia when he disappeared while swimming on a beach in 1967.
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a Portuguese resort in May 2007.
English princes Edward and Richard vanished in 1483, right around the time their Uncle Richard III took over the throne and locked them in the Tower of London.
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The doomed plane was traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it disappeared on March 8, 2014.
The son of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was lost in New Guinea in 1961.
Gricar was a Pennsylvania prosecutor who declined to charge disgraced coach Jerry Sandusky before he mysteriously disappeared in 2005.
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