People

Mysterious Appearances/Disappearances

List of people who have disappeared	A list.
Dan Cooper	An aircraft hijacker who, after hijacking a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. After his demands were met, he jumped out of the plane flying over Woodland, Washington. He was never found.
Poe Toaster	A mysterious figure who pays an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the author's original grave marker on his birthday.	Upload new image "poe_toaster.jpg"
Amelia Earhart	A famous disappearance case.
Kaspar Hauser	appear
Michael Rockefeller	Disappeared during an archelogy expedition. May have drowned, been attacked by a shark or crocodile, or killed an eaten by a local tribe.
Roanoke Colony	An entire colony of 100 people vanishes.

Mysterious Deaths

List of unusual deaths	A list.
Gloria Ramirez	An ER patient dubbed "the toxic lady" by the media after exposure to her body and blood seemed to sicken hospital workers.
Edgar Allan Poe	Various mysteries surround the death of the author.
Lead Masks Case	Two men die in strange circumstances. A UFO may have been involved.
Omayra Sanchez	Not mysterious, but sad.

Unusual People

Charles Fort	A researcher into the paranormal.
Carl Tanzler	German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Maria Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos.
Purple Aki	A convicted criminal, previously believed to be an urban legend.
Raymond Robinson - The Green Man	Severely disfigured man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania.
Elephant Man
Dan Rather Frequency	Dan Rather was attacked and punched from behind by a man who demanded to know, "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
Art Bell	Not that unusual himself, but the ex-host of the very unusual radio show "Coast to Coast AM".
David Icke	Conspiracy investigator, and believes in the Illuminati (which also happen to be reptilian humanoids).
Duncan MacDougall	An early 20th century physician who sought to measure the mass of the human soul.
Immanuel Velikovsky	Claimed that Earth had catastrophic close-contacts with Venus and Mars in ancient times. Also tried to revise chronology for various ancient cultures.
John Fare	The legend of a man who slowly destroyed his own body in a number of artistic performances.
Man in the iron mask	The mask wasn't really iron, the but rest of the story is still bizarre.
Montana Freemen	Tried to set up their own government within the US.

Paranormal & Superhuman

Jack Parsons	Occultist, rocketry pioneer, and disciple of Aleister Crowley. Among other things, attempted to summon the sex-goddess Babalon into a physical body in an elaborate ritual and allegedly wrecked former partner L. Ron Hubbard's boat with a magical typhoon.
Edgar Cayce	Man who claimed to have psychic powers and led many to believe that California would fall into the Pacific Ocean.
Count of St. Germain	Supposedly credited with god-like powers and longevity.
Louis Wain	An English artist, known for his pictures of cats, who eventually became schizophrenic.

GOTO RELIGION

John Murray Spear

Clergyman John Murray Spear attempted to build a mechanical New Messiah - a machine that was supposed to transform humanity spiritually - in 1854 which supposedly ran on electricity.

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