Mystical cases of mass disappearance of people that have remained a mystery

Any crime leaves traces, the blogger P_I_F reasonably notes. This is an immutable truth, from which investigators and criminologists from all over the world start. A person can't just disappear into thin air, and certainly this can't happen to several people at the same time. Or maybe?

Eskimo village on Lake Angikuni

More than 80 years have passed, and scientists have not found an explanation for the mysterious disappearance of people in 1930 in Canada. Angikuni — this name was not only the lake, but also the local fishing village located nearby. About 2000 Inuit lived in it, always joyfully welcoming travelers.

This area was a tasty morsel for hunters and fishermen — fur-bearing animals were beaten in the vicinity. Although it was not easy to get to Angikuni, there were brave seekers, among whom was a Canadian hunter named Joe Labelle. He often visited those parts, and after hunting he liked to stop in an Inuit village to rest and gain strength.

But on November 12, 1930, he failed to meet old acquaintances. It was cold that day, so Labelle was terribly cold and counted the minutes to the village. Finally, the igloo appeared, but Joe noticed that it was somehow suspiciously deserted. He skied up to the first house and entered. There was no one inside, although the situation suggested that the residents had left the house as if a few minutes ago: the soup was bubbling in the pot, all things were in their places.

After going around the whole village, Joe didn't find a soul. All warm clothes and weapons, food were left in the igloo, and around the village the snow did not preserve a single human trace, despite the windless weather. Frightened, the hunter hurriedly went to the nearest telegraph office. A few hours later, the squad arrived.

Where did the Eskimos go, why they abandoned all their belongings, took neither food nor clothes, and remained a mystery.

Flannan Islands Lighthouse

Flannan is a small archipelago near Scotland. A 23-meter lighthouse stands above one of the islands. Today, the islands are uninhabited: since the lighthouse began to work automatically, the profession of lighthouse keepers has become a thing of the past.

And at the beginning of the last century, three caretakers had to be constantly on duty at the lighthouse, another one was at the coastal station. When the mysterious thing happened, three men were on watch: Second Assistant Warden James Ducat, First Assistant Thomas Marshall and Assistant Donald MacArthur. Chief Caretaker Joseph Moore later said that everything was as usual when he left the lighthouse three weeks earlier.

Surprisingly, the lighthouse lamps were perfectly polished, there was enough fuel in them, and the waterproof raincoats of the caretakers hung on their hooks. The only thing that was strange about the lighthouse's surroundings was the overturned kitchen table. And, in fact, the absence of people.

A thorough inspection of the island yielded nothing, except for the fact that a bent fence was found on the western shore, on the pier. According to the official version, the ministers fell victim to the extraordinary force of the squall. But few people were satisfied with it.