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For more details. Sometimes,

2:03

in this world, people disappear without leaving

2:05

a single trace behind as to what

2:07

happened to them. These

2:09

stories are scary, strange, and tormenting to

2:12

the family and friends left behind who

2:14

have to constantly think about the possibilities

2:16

as to what went down. These

2:19

cases on this list are very weird, you

2:22

have to hear them to believe them, so here

2:25

are five mysterious vanishings from the past.

2:30

Number 5, the Millbrook twins. When

2:36

it comes to crimes, it's no surprise that

2:38

depending on where they happen, race and status

2:40

can play a huge role in whether or

2:43

not investigators work hard to solve them. While

2:46

missing affluent children often get

2:48

nationwide attention, missing

2:51

kids from poorer small town USA

2:53

are often overlooked and

2:55

even ignored. Which

2:58

was the case for 15-year-old twins,

3:00

Danette and Janette Millbrook, who

3:02

vanished into thin air one day 34 years

3:05

ago in Augusta, Georgia. On

3:09

Sunday, March 18th of 1990, the

3:12

Millbrook family attended church service

3:14

that morning and stopped

3:16

to pick up some chicken for lunch on the

3:18

way home. When

3:20

they got home, Janette told her mother

3:23

Mary that she had seen that they were

3:25

being followed by a white van. Mary

3:28

could tell her daughter wasn't playing around and looked

3:30

out the window to check, but there

3:32

were no vehicles in sight. Later

3:35

that afternoon, the girls left the

3:37

house to go to their godfather's place to

3:40

get bus money for the following week's fare

3:42

to and from school. After

3:44

that, they went to visit their cousin and their older

3:47

sister, and then they stopped

3:49

by a gas station to buy chips and

3:51

the soda. That was the last

3:53

time anyone ever saw them again. Mary

3:57

Grew concerned by nightfall when her daughter is

3:59

still alive. then returned from their outing. She.

4:03

Had allowed to go look for them on slow with

4:05

or twelve year old daughter Shah into. Together.

4:07

They searched the streets and after a

4:09

few hours of coming up empty handed.

4:12

Marry. Call The Police. On

4:15

the other end of the line though, there

4:17

was no swift jump in action. As.

4:19

I to police seemed unconcerned about the

4:21

whole situation, telling the frantic mother that

4:24

she had to wait twenty four hours

4:26

to report him missing person. When.

4:28

They're called again a detective told her

4:31

bluntly. They. Probably ran away.

4:35

And since their mother families done everything in

4:37

their power to find the twins. The.

4:39

Authorities only gave a half hearted as bird

4:41

and trying to locate on. They.

4:44

Never treated it as though a crime

4:46

occurred. Just. Two teens who

4:48

decide to leave home. Even

4:52

though the disappearance of these sisters was

4:54

the only unresolved case of twins disappearing

4:56

in America, No one seemed

4:58

all that interested in it. And.

5:01

And while believe that is because

5:03

the down south. And the

5:05

girls were black and from a low income

5:08

family. And.

5:10

Ninety Ninety Three, Someone call the police

5:12

and informed on that the girls had

5:14

in fact been found. This

5:17

unknown caller was never identified. The

5:19

single anonymous call cause the case to

5:22

be dropped from the system. Even.

5:24

Know he was just a phone call from a

5:26

nobody. For

5:28

ten long years known that the family continued

5:31

in the search. And. Twenty

5:33

dirty in the case was reopened when

5:35

a new Richmond County Sheriff was elected.

5:38

Overall trails and since gone call

5:40

by that time. And have

5:42

been twenty two years already. Seen

5:46

that the girls it simply vanished into

5:48

thin air. Man, the case remains unsolved

5:50

to this day. Know.

5:53

It's more than likely to pick them

5:55

up at a gas station or on

5:57

their walk home. Perhaps.

5:59

someone and white van is the only person

6:01

who knows the truth. Number

6:06

4. Catherine Eggleston In

6:11

the early 90s Portland, Oregon was a city

6:13

much like any other in the US. It

6:16

was a nice artistic community, its

6:19

streets bustling, and back then

6:21

it was a relatively safe place, especially

6:23

considering it was a city. However,

6:26

a dark mystery was about to happen that would

6:28

leave a scar on the town, and

6:31

it's the story of Catherine Eggleston,

6:33

who suddenly, and under weird

6:35

circumstances, just disappeared. 22-year-old

6:40

Catherine, a recent Oregon State

6:43

University graduate, is known

6:45

for always slashing a bright smile

6:47

and her kind-hearted nature. She

6:50

was working in sales at All Net

6:52

Communications Services, so she reported to an

6:54

office building each and every

6:56

day, and that was her routine. On

7:00

August 2nd of 1993 she had a

7:02

meeting to go to in Portland. Her

7:05

company was based just outside in Lake

7:07

Oswego. She

7:09

had to run some errands along the

7:11

way, and interestingly, this was the first

7:13

time she was headed out alone on

7:15

any business-related ventures. She

7:18

must have been feeling proud, knowing they'd trust her to

7:20

do that. She made

7:22

a bank deposit for the company, got some

7:24

gas, and grabbed lunch at a Burger King.

7:27

All this was verified by witnesses that day.

7:31

By the early afternoon she had made her

7:33

way to the port of Portland building, where

7:35

her meeting was, and again, there

7:38

were witnesses who saw her in the lobby

7:40

making some phone calls. At

7:43

around 2pm the man she was supposed to meet

7:45

with went down to the lobby to wait for

7:47

her and watched from across the

7:49

room as she exited the elevator with a

7:51

man wearing a blue blazer with dark

7:54

hair and a dark complexion instead

7:56

of walking towards him, and they

7:58

just walked out the front door. and

8:01

nobody has seen Catherine since. She

8:05

missed an appointment with her advisor that

8:07

day that was supposed to happen at

8:09

5pm back at the Lake Oswego office.

8:12

That night she didn't return home to the

8:14

place she shared with her sister. Her

8:17

sister called her dad and by the following

8:19

morning he had driven out there. As

8:23

the calls went out by the authorities,

8:25

who were told to be on the

8:27

lookout for Catherine and or her grey

8:29

Volkswagen Golf, and that's when

8:31

a security guard of an industrial complex

8:34

located near the airport found

8:36

her car parked there and this

8:38

was 9 miles away from the port of

8:40

Portland building. Her

8:43

car windows were down and the car was

8:45

unlocked with the keys still in the ignition.

8:48

Gatherin's purse was in there with

8:50

some cash, her checkbook, ID and

8:52

credit cards, however her

8:54

passport, which she had grabbed from her

8:57

parents' house just 10 days prior was

8:59

missing. On

9:01

the afternoon that she disappeared, those witnesses

9:03

who saw her in the lobby said

9:05

she seemed anxious and nervous while making

9:07

her calls. So, what was

9:10

she up to? More importantly, who

9:12

was she talking with? Had

9:14

she secretly run away with this dark-skinned

9:17

man to forge a different life or

9:19

was something much darker taking place?

9:23

Her company then paid for a

9:25

large-scale search operation. Bloodhounds

9:28

and volunteers scoured the area around

9:30

her car, all the

9:32

fields and buildings, but nothing

9:34

was ever found. A hotline

9:37

was set up or tips poured in, but

9:39

it was hard to tell it was legit

9:41

and who wasn't. One

9:43

person had called in saying they had killed

9:45

the young woman and that they'd never find the body.

9:50

In 2004, in Corvallis, a woman named

9:52

Brooke Wilburger disappeared and was later discovered

9:54

to have been murdered. Her

9:58

killer was caught, a man named old

10:00

Courtney had done it and apparently he had

10:02

been in the Portland area around the

10:04

time of Catherine's disappearance. He

10:07

was looked at as a suspect for some

10:10

time, though nothing concrete ever came

10:12

from that. While

10:15

Catherine's parents believed she was 100%

10:17

murdered, lead detective Terry Wagner

10:19

seemed to think that she left

10:21

on her own accord and she

10:24

had good reason to think that. Her

10:26

own sister was under investigation

10:28

for tax fraud. She

10:31

had apparently not claimed $190,000 her

10:34

business had made and so Catherine,

10:36

since she lived with her, was going to

10:38

have to testify against her own blood. And

10:41

maybe she knew her sister was guilty, so

10:44

rather than face the music she decided to

10:47

get out of dodge. Something

10:50

happened to her, that's for sure. It

10:53

seemed strange to run away forever just because

10:55

your sister needed to pay some taxes, but

10:58

then again, stranger things have occurred.

11:01

To this day, though, nobody knows

11:03

exactly where she is or what

11:06

happened to Catherine Eggleston. 3.

11:12

June Carpenter Gilkerson On

11:17

the morning of November 8th, 1986,

11:20

down in Midland, Texas, 24-year-old June

11:22

Carpenter Gilkerson said goodbye to her

11:24

husband and headed out to work

11:26

at the Midland Restitution Center which

11:29

was a halfway house. She

11:32

was there volunteering, learning the

11:34

ropes of what it took to become

11:37

a probation officer because that was what she

11:39

aspired to be one day. Only,

11:42

she never made it there, and

11:44

in fact, has not been seen since, but

11:47

that doesn't mean we don't know what happened to

11:49

her. You

11:52

see, June had a secret she was keeping from

11:54

her husband. For around the past

11:56

six months, she had been having relations with

11:58

a man named David Aldridge. the rink, who

12:01

was on probation for burglary, so

12:03

their paths crossed over at the halfway

12:05

house. Two

12:07

days after she disappeared, her car would be found

12:09

at a Best Western Motel with all her stuff

12:11

in there. Purse, the keys,

12:13

and some of her clothes, but no

12:16

sign of June or so. Typically,

12:19

with any missing person, the spouse is the

12:21

first one to suspect. Her

12:23

husband was looked into, of course, but

12:26

he had an alibi and was very distraught

12:28

about his missing wife, and he

12:30

still loved her and he didn't know anything

12:32

about the affair. A

12:35

little more digging, though, by detectives,

12:37

and they found out about her

12:39

extramarital relationship with the ex-con David,

12:42

and that's when they pressed him, hard,

12:45

until he broke. Part

12:48

of his probation was to perform community

12:50

service, and he did his at

12:52

the local library. It

12:54

was there that he met the janitor, Kenneth

12:56

Parker, and once the two got

12:58

to talking, Parker told him about his

13:01

get-rich-quick scheme. He

13:03

explained that he could sell American women to the

13:05

Mexican cartels and, in exchange, make $10,000 per woman.

13:07

And even though June had told

13:12

David she wanted to divorce her husband and

13:14

move in with him, the feeling wasn't

13:16

exactly mutual. David

13:19

told Parker he could get him June,

13:21

and they agreed to do a drop-off.

13:23

In exchange, David would get $7500. So,

13:26

on the morning she disappeared, they planned to

13:29

meet up

13:31

before work. Once June

13:34

arrived, Parker came out and grabbed

13:36

her. He put duct tape

13:38

around her mouth and threw her in

13:40

her sleeping bag and took her away.

13:42

That's when David drove her car to the

13:44

Best Western and left it there. But

13:48

June didn't want to play nice, and she put

13:50

up a big fight against Parker, who would

13:52

go on to tell David that there was no money

13:55

to be had because he needed to take her out.

13:57

He said he shot her, and

13:59

he was in the back and then he took her body to

14:01

a relatives house where he burned it in a

14:03

pile of tires. While

14:06

Parker to this day still claims he's

14:08

innocent and June's body has never

14:11

been found, the police did

14:13

find Parker's gun with two spent casings

14:15

which was enough to seal his fate

14:19

and David because he cooperated would go

14:21

on to be sentenced to 20 years

14:23

in jail while Parker was given two

14:25

life sentences and will be eligible

14:27

for parole in the year 2048 when he is 100 years old.

14:35

Number 2. Kyle Clinkscales Kyle

14:40

Clinkscales of LaGrange, Georgia was a sort

14:42

of young man most would describe as

14:44

full of potential. A student

14:47

at Auburn University in Alabama, he was

14:49

a sports enthusiast and was on the

14:51

cusp of deciding what direction to take

14:53

his life in. But on

14:56

a cold night back in January of 1976, the

15:00

22 year old set out on

15:02

a journey from his part time job at a

15:04

bar in LaGrange headed out to his

15:06

school. It was a drive he

15:08

never completed. That

15:11

night the mystery began and it marked

15:13

the start of a quest for answers

15:15

coming from his parents, Louise and John.

15:18

Where did he go, what happened and

15:21

most importantly was he still alive. Their

15:24

entire lives would soon be consumed

15:26

by a series of unsuccessful search

15:28

missions. Drained lakes and

15:31

thousands of bumper stickers and flyers with

15:33

their sons face would be put out

15:35

over the years in search to end

15:37

the mystery but still nothing.

15:41

The Clinkscales house showed a relentless

15:43

spirit of hope. Among

15:45

the many family portraits there was also a permanent

15:47

place setting at the dinner table for the young

15:50

man. A spare key was

15:52

left in their hiding spot in case he ever

15:54

made it home. As

15:57

the years turned into decades the tormenting question

15:59

of what happened and Kyle Klink's scales

16:01

remained unanswered, that is

16:03

until almost 46 years had passed by. In

16:08

December of 2021 an unexpected

16:10

discovery was made. A

16:13

motorist traveling on a two-lane road in

16:15

cassette Alabama noticed the rear end of

16:17

a rusted vehicle protruding from a creek.

16:21

They told authorities who pulled it up and

16:23

inside the waterlogged 1974 Ford Pinto, lay

16:28

an ID belonging to Kyle and

16:30

his skeletal remains. Without

16:34

warning the town's coldest case was

16:36

revived and although Grimm provided

16:38

a semblance of closure to the mystery that

16:40

had gripped LaGrange for nearly half a century.

16:43

A tragic irony

16:45

was that this closure came too late for

16:47

Louisian John who had passed away in 2021

16:51

in 2007 respectively. Yet

16:53

the community was there to remember to

16:56

mourn and to finally lay Kyle to rest.

16:59

It was an accident that occurred on a remote

17:01

road and hidden all those years were

17:03

the answers that tortured his parents

17:06

until the day they died. Number

17:11

1, Susan Walsh. Susan

17:16

Walsh, a 36 year old

17:18

journalist, mother and part-time exotic

17:20

dancer, stepped out to make

17:23

a phone call outside her home in Nutley,

17:25

New Jersey and was never seen again. And because

17:29

of the type of work she did,

17:31

there are many possible suspects but still

17:33

no concrete answers. Susan

17:37

was estranged from her husband and

17:39

he lived in the apartment below them so he could

17:41

be a part of their son David's life. Susan

17:45

worked hard for her family and while pursuing a

17:48

master's degree she held a few jobs just to keep

17:50

a roof over their head. She

17:53

published articles in the Village Voice

17:55

and Screw Magazine and while being a

17:57

full-time writer it was what she aspired to be. The

18:00

freelance journalism world didn't always pay

18:03

the bills. As

18:05

a result, she worked various jobs as a stripper,

18:08

but that also fueled her desire

18:10

to expose the dark corners of society.

18:14

Susan wrote about the seedy underbelly of these types

18:16

of clubs in New York and New Jersey, about

18:19

how the Russian mafia had their hand in

18:21

bringing over young girls and getting them involved

18:23

with this type of work and

18:25

providing company to men willing to pay. She

18:29

also wrote about the underground vampire culture in

18:31

New York, going to clubs

18:33

and learning about their dark rituals herself.

18:37

Her work was groundbreaking, edging

18:39

on the dangerous, a tightrope walk

18:42

between revealing the truth and becoming

18:44

a target. On

18:47

July 16th of 1996, Susan made

18:49

a phone call to her estranged

18:51

husband downstairs, stating she would

18:53

be stepping out to use a payphone nearby

18:56

and she never returned. The

18:59

mystery of her disappearance began as a

19:01

simple missing person case, but soon unraveled

19:04

into a complex web of theories and

19:06

dead ends. Despite

19:08

exhaustive searches and widespread media

19:11

coverage, no trace of Susan

19:13

has ever been found. She

19:15

had vanished into thin air and even behind her

19:18

young son in a series of

19:20

investigative reports that some believe may

19:22

have led to her untimely disappearance. The

19:27

investigation into Susan's disappearance opened the

19:29

door to a labyrinth of the

19:31

possible underworld connections, including ties to

19:33

organized crime and the secretive community

19:36

she infiltrated during her reporting. In

19:39

just two days prior to her vanishing, she

19:41

was actually filmed for a documentary about women

19:43

working in the adult industry, where

19:45

she mentioned that it's dangerous and that

19:48

she herself had a stalker. Eric's

19:52

husband Mark was not considered a suspect,

19:54

though it was revealed that

19:56

he refused to let police into his

19:58

house to do forensics tests. in. And

20:01

that stalker, apparently Susan had told a

20:03

friend that it was a former boyfriend.

20:07

The article she wrote about vampires was

20:09

never officially published, so it

20:11

doesn't seem it had anything to do with that. The

20:14

Russian Mafia certainly could have made a

20:16

play, but if that's the case,

20:19

good luck finding and catching them. And

20:22

then there's the reality that friends were

20:25

concerned that Susan had relapsed into drugs

20:27

after 11 years of sobriety. So

20:30

maybe there's something to that angle. In

20:33

the end, there's a lot of possibilities. Maybe

20:36

it was something random that happened, or maybe,

20:39

after all those years looking into the dark

20:41

corners of society, someone didn't

20:43

like what she was saying and

20:45

did something about it. So

20:49

there were five mysterious disappearances from

20:52

the past. I'm Andrew,

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