Gypsy
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Age: 19
Location: Maryland
Registration date: 2009-03-04
 |  Subject: Appearances and Disappearances  Sun 10 May 2009 - 8:03 | |
| Like it says, inexplicable appearances and disapearances. Feel free to add your own :D---- On October 24, 1593, a soldier stationed in Manila, the Philippines, repoted for palace-guard duty in Mexico City. He was instantly noticed because of his bizzare uniform, setting him apart from all others. He was instantly interrogated. The soldier, baffled at finding himself in a strange land, said he had been instructed that morning to report ofr duty at the palace in Manila, adding that the governor of the Philippines had been kille the night before. The authorities, finding his stoy too ridiculous to be believable, threw the soldier in jail. Two months later, news reached Mexico that confirmed his story: the governor had indeed been killed in Manila- on the night before the soldier turned up in Mexico. The soldier was allowed to return to the Philippines.---- In 1809. England sought to persuade Austria to join the confederation opposing Napoleon. Benjamin Bathurst, a 25-year-old diplomat who had already distinguished himself in foreign service, went to Vienna to promise an attack on the French, who were occupying Spain, in return for Austria's alignment with England. It proved a bad bargain: Napoleon was victorious at Wagram on the Danube River and Austria was forced to cede territory to him. That fall, Bathurst began to make his way back home through Germany. On November 25, traveling under the name of Koch and posing as a wealthy merchant, he and his secretary and valet stopped at an inn in Perleberg. A witness at the inn reported that he seemed very nervous. He asked the commander of the local garrison to provide armed guards against mysterious pursuers-perhaps agents of Napoleon. In the middle of the evening, as his coach was perparing to leave, Bathurst went out into the otherwise deserted street, walked around hsi horses... And was gone. His valet, who had been at the rear of the coach with the baggage, cast a look down each side of the coach and saw only the hostler who had harnessed the horses. His secretary, standing in the doorway of the inn to pay the bill, had not seen him return. The soldiers stationed at each end of the street had seen no one pass. The authoriteis searched the inn and then all of Perleberg. In quiries from the British Foreign Office brought a denial from Napoleon that his agents had been involved. Stoies circulated that Bathurst had been robbed and murdered, that he had secretly gone on to a port and been lost at sea, and so on- but all that is known about Benjamin Bathurst's disappearance from a quiet street in a small German town is that under observation, he walked around to the other side of the horses. And was never seen again.---- Not one, but two treasures disappeared somewhere on the rocky, inhospitible Cocos Island, 200 miles off te Pacific coast of Costa Rica, one in 1819, and one in 1820. The first treasure was that of the pirate Benito Bonito, who captured a Spanish ship laden with around 150 tons of gold. after the booty was buried, Bonito killed most of his crew and sailed off with the rest. The British Royal Navy said he was killed soon afterwards in a sea battle, but some believed that he alone made it to short- though he never returned to the island. Soon after the disappearance of the pirate Bonito, officials in the Spanish coloy of Peru gathered the state and church treasures of Lima together to prevent them from falling into the hands of a liberation army. Loaded on board the British ship Mary Dier, the treasure was dispatched to Panama. But the Mary Dier's captain, Charles Thompson, changed course and sailed to Cocos Island. There he and his crew buried the treasure. Unlike Bonito, Captain Thompson did not laughter his mn to safeguard the secret, yt the Mary Dier and all aboard her vanished. In 1840, Thompson-or someone claiming to be Thompson- appeared in Newfoundland with a map of Cocos and a feverish desire to raise an expedition to recover the treasure. No one would believe him and he later disappeared. The reputed hoard of Cocos has never been found, despite numerous searches.---- The Dutch schooner Hermania was discovered off England's Cornish coast in 1849, her masts blown away and her crew gone without a trace and the lifeboat still aboard.---- The James B. Chester was in fine condition when she was found in the middle of the Atlaticc on February 28, 1855. The compassand ship's papers were gone, and there were signs that possessions had been hastily gathered from drawers, but all lifeboats were in place.---- The Mississippi riverboat Iron Mountain, was more than 180 feet long. In June 1872, it set out from Vicksburg with barges in tow loaded with a cargo of cotton and molasses. Later, te barges came floating downstream. The towrope had been cut rather than snapped or cast off. No one ever saw the Iron Mountain or her 52 passengers again. No trace of wreckage or floating cargo from the riverboat's deck load was ever found.---- Two children appeared from a cave near Banjos, Spain, in August 1887. Their skin was green and their clothes were an unfamliar material. They could not speak Spanish and their eyes appeared Oriental. At first they would not eat, and the by died, but the girl survived and learnd enough Spanish to explain that they came from a sunless land, where oe day a whirlwind had swept her and her companion away and deposited them in the cave. The girl died in 1892. Her origins are still unknown.---- I'll post some more of these later. I hope you guys enjoyed them. Feel free to add some of your own stories of strange appearances and disappearances. :D
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