Famous Disappearing Acts

• Bell, Art

  The original host of the eerie radio show "Coast to Coast AM"

• Bierce, Ambrose

  Author of A Fiend's Delight

• Christie, Agatha

  Author of Murder on the Orient Express

• Cooper, D.B.

  The parachuting skyjacker who maybe got away

• Crater, Judge

  The New York judge who vanished in 1930

• Earhart, Amelia

  The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937

• Fossett, Steve

  The record-breaking aviator who disappeared in Nevada

• Gray, Spalding

  Creator of Swimming to Cambodia and other monologues

• Hoffa, Jimmy

  The powerful Teamsters honcho missing since 1975

• Hyde, Glen and Bessie

  Newlyweds who disappeared in the Grand Canyon

• Levy, Chandra

  The intern who disappeared from Washington D.C. in 2001

• Mallory, George

  The man who climbed Mount Everest "because it's there."

• McPherson, Aimee Semple

  The popular 1920s preacher who disappeared

• Miller, Glenn

  Wartime big band leader

• O'Hair, Madalyn Murray

  Head of American Atheists

• Sanford, Mark

  The South Carolina governor who was caught with an Argentinian mistress

• Stalin, Joseph

  The dictatorial leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1928 to 1953

• Theremin, Leon

  Inventor of the electronic musical instrument

• Villa, Pancho

  Legendary Mexican bandit

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