A disappearance that makes headlines can seem like a mystery someone is bound to solve. But even huge search parties and a ...

Some of history’s most gripping stories don’t have endings. People vanish — from ships, from jungles, from locked rooms, from their own backyards — and leave behind nothing but questions. These aren’t ...

John White, the governor of Roanoke Colony in Virginia, was there when the first English child—his granddaughter, Virginia Dare—was born in the Americas. Shortly after her birth on Aug. 18, 1587, ...

A nuclear physicist and MIT professor fatally shot outside his Massachusetts residence. A retired Air Force general missing from his New Mexico home. An aerospace engineer who disappeared during a ...