Carl Robert Disch
Carl Robert Disch was a 26 year old physicist who disappeared in Antarctica in 1965. He went out from the radio building to the main building and just vanished. He was noticed missing within an hour. Search crews went out immediately but never found his body. Due to the Antarctic weather, he most likely died within a few hours and was covered by a snow drift. After his death, supposedly his favorite dog also mysteriously disappeared. In 1971, McMurdo Station, another Antarctic research base, received a transmission from someone claiming to be Carl Robert Disch who was still alive somewhere in Antarctica and very lonely.
Clearly he had some accident, died, and got snowed over. And then years later some morbid weirdo wanted to have some fun. Nobody normal ever goes to Antarctica. I wonder the kind of ghost stories they tell each other when the last flight goes out and they're all stuck in that frozen hellhole for months.
Gary DeVore
Gary DeVore was a Hollywood screenwriter who one day disappeared on his way home after finishing a script in 1997. A year later, he was found in his car under a bridge. His body was missing its hands, though hand bones were located "nearby" they were never conclusively proven to be his, and his laptop and gun were missing from the car. Police had previously searched this location shortly after he was declared missing and found nothing odd. They also concluded that for his car to crash in that location he would have had to drive 3 miles against oncoming traffic. Furthermore, his car had the headlights in the off position despite him going missing at night.
There is a documentary out there that alleges some CIA connection to DeVore's death. I haven't seen the documentary, but evidently he really did have some CIA contacts and the theory goes that his script contained certain evidence or allusions to nefarious CIA dealings in Panama. Seems insanely melodramatic and unlikely to me, but if anyone's seen the documentary tell us your thoughts.
Joyce Vincent
Joyce Vincent was an English woman who died around December 2003 but wasn't discovered until January 2006. She had gradually cut off her friends and family and wasn't currently employed so nobody noticed she was missing. Actually, at a certain point her family hired a private investigator and he found her location and they sent her conciliatory letters, but she was already dead by then and they took her lack of response as her wanting nothing to do with them. For the full two years that she was dead, her television and heating were on and her bills were partially paid through government agencies and automatic payments. Neighbors assumed her apartment was empty and nobody ever noticed anything amiss. Her apartment was near the dumpsters and so the smell of her decay was masked.
Her body was too decayed for cause of death to be determined. There wasn't any sign of foul play or suicide and it seems she was wrapping Christmas presents when she died. Guesses for her cause of death include peptic ulcer or asthma complications, both ailments she had, but the truth is unknown. Can you imagine living next door to someone whose corpse has been rotting for over two years?
