Résultats pour "Disappearances" dans Histoire

In 1935, during the wind-swept years of the Dust Bowl, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah, a place “wild, desolate, mysterious”. A 13-year-old girl, Lucy Garrett, was tricked into heading west with the man who had murdered her father under the pretense of reuniting with him. At the same time, a search was underway for Dan Thrapp, a young scientist on leave from the American Museum of Natural History.

In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of two brutal murders. Confounding their superiors, two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott, crack the case and arrest the murderer, earning themselves handsome promotions and the lasting respect of their colleagues. But 20 years later, just as he is on the point of taking early retirement, Rosenberg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who believes he made a mistake back in 1994 and that the real murderer is still out there, perhaps ready to strike again.

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between...

In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives "disappear." Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.

1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts—and disappears. 1910, London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring of international criminals when they find a young woman on the streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case. As more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era. 

Host Raven Thorne investigates history's most baffling vanishings where people disappeared under impossible circumstances that defy logic. Each episode explores thematically linked cases filled with eerie details, maddening dead ends, and haunting questions that remain unanswered decades later. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does… This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory. 01...

In search of a new history of queer culture, Diarmuid Hester travels from Cambridge's ancient cloisters to the smoky clubs of Jazz Age Paris, through the bunkers of Nazi-occupied Jersey to the newly liberated gaybourhoods of New York and beyond. Authoritative and not a little irreverent, Hester brings to life the bars and basements, homes and studios, cities and landscapes that shaped the sexual identities of such extraordinary figures as E. M. Forster, Josephine Baker, James Baldwin and Derek Jarman.

Between 1945 and 1950, five people vanished without explanation from Vermont's Bennington Triangle—a hundred square miles of wilderness where massive searches found almost nothing. Join host Raven Thorne as she investigates the eerie pattern of disappearances that haunted one remote mountain and then mysteriously stopped. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Join host Raven Thorne as she unravels Flight 19, five Navy bombers that vanished in 1945 and sparked the Bermuda Triangle legend. Through radio transcripts and Navy records, discover how navigation errors and myth-making transformed a military tragedy into supernatural folklore. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

In 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished with 306 people aboard, leaving no wreckage, no distress call, and no answers. Join host Raven Thorne as she investigates the Navy's most baffling mystery, examining mechanical failures and the chilling pattern that claimed three sister ships. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

When Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished from a Detroit parking lot in 1975, he took with him the secrets of America's most dangerous alliance between organized labor and the mob. Host Lucien Graves investigates the pension-fund schemes, Mafia power plays, and half-century of bizarre burial theories that keep this cold case burning hot. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Host Lucien Graves investigates aviation's greatest mystery: what really happened to Amelia Earhart over the Pacific in 1937? Each episode examines a different theory—crash and sink, castaway survival, or wartime capture—weighing hard evidence against persistent legends to separate historical fact from wishful thinking. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

In December 1926, celebrated author Agatha Christie vanished for eleven days, creating a real-life mystery that would captivate the world. This series dives deep into the events surrounding her disappearance, exploring the emotional turmoil, public fascination, and enduring legacy of this enigmatic episode in her life. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, The Missing Days brings to life a tale of betrayal, resilience, and reinvention—one that rivals the intrigue of her greatest novels. This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Given that there’s such little margin for error in a submersible, many submarine losses remain sources of intrigue and mystery, and during World War II, few sinkings were as controversial as the Surcouf, a Free French submarine that disappeared in the Caribbean in 1942. When the Surcouf launched in 1929, it was a technological marvel. This wasn’t a conventional submarine at all, but a 3,300-ton, 300-foot-long submersible light cruiser.

The Vanishing Act brings together the first three gripping installments of the Shadows of the Past series, diving deep into the lives, disappearances, and legacies of three extraordinary women. Each case reveals the darker side of history, where secrets, scandals, and societal pressures converge into captivating mysteries that remain unsolved to this day.

The Hollywood culture of the 1940s served as a symbol of fantasy for a country at war. The American population, steeped in a dark global reality, lived vicariously through the film industry's fantasy offerings on the big screen, and eagerly embraced the advent of television in the latter part of the decade. On the stage, images of idealized feminine beauty thrived in the Ziegfeld Follies tradition, Radio City Music Hall, Las Vegas, and the fantastical world created by Earl Carroll in his Hollywood theater.

It was the great mystery of its time and still reads like an episode of Law and Order today. In December 1910, a wealthy young woman, thought to be sheltered and above reproach, goes missing shortly after being seen in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The police are called in and begin to question those closest to her, only to have her father, a wealthy manufacturer, insist it must be foul play and that his daughter was on good terms with her entire family.

This book tells the story of the 99 men who were serving on the USS Scorpion on May 22, 1968, the fateful day the submarine is believed to have sank. It appears that the crew members died quickly, but however it happened, the grief experienced by their family members dragged on for decades, exacerbated both by the Navy's lack of information about the submarine's final moments and the government's unwillingness to share what little knowledge it had.

The Millennial Scoop is the ongoing assimilation of Indigenous children and youth through the Canadian government's child welfare systems. Natasha is a Millennial Scoop survivor from Manitoba's Child Welfare System. This is her story.