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30 Things That Disappeared (or Appeared) in the Most Disconcertingly Random Ways

By:: Jesse

March 23, 2024

30 Things That Disappeared (or Appeared) in the Most Disconcertingly Random Ways

If you’re not careful, your priceless replica of George Washington’s teeth might be replaced with a bunch of old Garfield telephones.

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Things that mysteriously disappeared The treasure map from the Goonies After filming, Sean Astin took the map home with true Goony (Goonie?) energy. Eventually his mother, actress Patty Duke, sold the home-and as for the map, Astin suspects she threw it out. Maybe one of my friends took it from my room. Who knows. OREGON CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared The Amber Room Imagine a non-tacky version of those golden rooms in the Trump Tower. The Amber Room was decorated with amber, gold leaf, and mirrors, just the most beautiful room in old-timey Russia. It was built in the early 18th century, then dismantled and moved around until World War II, when the damn Nazis looted it, used it for storage, and eventually lost it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AFTER THIRTY YEARS. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO INVI BETT AGE 5 *LOUIS AG LOUIS AGE 9 JENNIE AGE 8 MAXICE AGE TO MASTRA AGE 12 ON CHRISTMAS EVE. 1945. OUR HOME WAS SET AFIRE AND FIVE OF OUR CHILDREN (AGE S FIVE THROUGH FOURTEEN) KIDNAPPED. THE OFFICIALS BLAMED DEFECTIVE WIRING. ALTHOUGH LIGHTS WERE ST BURNING AFTER THE FIRE STARTED. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. STATED THAT THE CHILDREN DIED IN THE I HOWEVER. NO BONES WERE FOUND IN THE RESIDUE AND THERE W NO SMELL OF BURNING FLE SH DURING OR AFTER THE FIRE. WHAT WAS THE MOTIVE OF THE LAW OFFICERS INVOLVED? WHA — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 En route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, the plane veered off track and eventually disappeared from radars, never to be seen again. Today it is believed it crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, since debris from the aircraft has washed ashore in the following years. malaysia OM-BRO CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared A copy of George Washington's teeth In 1981, the National Museum of American History discovered that one of their pair replicas of George Washington's teeth had gone missing. The lower half reappeared a year later, but the upper half remains lost. Somebody get Nicolas Cage on the case now! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared Skeeter, the Muppet Scooter's twin sister Skeeter first appeared in the Muppet Babies '80s Saturday morning cartoon - and hasn't reappeared in any movie or show since. She did return in a comic book, but that might not be canon. Was she murdered by Scooter? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared Easy Rider motorcycles Those two badass choppers bikes from Easy Rider were custom-made. Two of each were built, but three of the bikes went missing from their storage garage right before the film's premiere in 1969. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared Peking Man Peking Man is a Homo erectus subspecies from around 800,000-200,000 years ago. Fossils and artifacts from about 40 individuals were lost in 1941, when the American ships carrying them out of the Second Sino-Japanese War were attacked by Japanese forces. Other fossils still exist, but this loss just makes archaeologists ache. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared This big-ass sculpture Richard Serra's 42-ton behemoth has the catchy name of Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi. It was created in 1986 for a Spanish museum and put in storage in 1990, and nobody noticed when the paper trail vanished in 1992. In 2006, the museum admitted they had lost it. It has probably become scrap metal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared Metropolis' original Robot-Person Several replicas of the iconic Maschinenmensch exist, but the 1927 original was sculpted directly on the actress' plaster cast by designer Walter Schulze- Mittendorff, meaning there weren't any copies. Nobody knows what happened to the original model. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM SCIENTOLOGY Things that mysteriously disappeared The wife of the Scientology boss David Miscavige's sketchiness extends to the whereabouts of his wife Shelly, who was last seen in public in August of friggin' 2007. The LAPD followed a 2013 missing person report by saying she's actually super alive, you guys. — Source

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CRACKED.COM U.S.NN Things that mysteriously disappeared The L-8 crew On August 16, 1942, the would-be Ghost Blimp was seen wandering over San Francisco. It eventually crashed in Daly City, California, and when bystanders rushed to help the crew, they found no one there. A lieutenant and an ensign were supposed to be there, and even radioed in some minutes later, but they haven't emerged. — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared The original Iron Man suit Iron Man's 2008 red-and-gold costume was announced to have been stolen in 2018. Valued around $325,000, the suit was being kept in a prop storage warehouse in Los Angeles. We kinda want to high-five the culprits, but also, dick move, guys. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared D. В. Cooper The legend self-identified as Dan Cooper hijacked a plane on November 24, 1971. Не demanded money and parachutes, and released passengers in Seattle, but when the plane took off again he parachuted into Washington. The money was never spent, so he might have just anticlimactically died. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Things that mysteriously disappeared JFK's brain Kennedy's brain was removed and preserved during his autopsy. By 1966, it had gone missing. Theories abound, as the remains of the organ are said to hold the secret for who really shot JFK. Contemporary theories suggest it was taken by his brother Robert. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1997 a rogue wave unleashed 5 million Legos into the ocean. - - Free Ford Del TOKYO EXPRESS - The Legos were on the cargo ship Tokio Express when what the captain called a once in a 100-year wave swept the shipment overboard. Currents carried the Legos to Cornwall, where they continue to wash up to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rubber ducks from the 90s can be found on beaches worldwide. The Friendly Floatees are a shipment of rubber ducks that was lost at sea in the 90s and have been wandering the ocean ever since. Floatees have been spotted everywhere from Hawaii all the way to the Arctic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A billion of these creatures washed up on West Coast beaches. While they look like blue jellyfish, the creatures are actually Velella velella or by-the-wind sailors. Usually they use their sails to navigate open waters, but mass strandings happen every 3 to 6 years because of wind changes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2019 a small Russian village discovered two radioactive barges hanging out on their beach. thi ДЛ зав.N2 The barges may have been involved in a nuclear accident involving the Russian military a day earlier. The radiation levels from the barges peaked at 38 times higher than normal, with the levels inside them suspected to be even higher. CRACKED.COM — Source

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French beaches are covered in Garfield phones. For 30 years beachgoers have stumbled upon the novelty phones on beaches in the French region of Brittany. The mystery was solved in 2019 when volunteers tracked them to a wrecked shipping container in a nearby seacave. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A xenomorph washed up on a Texas beach. A woman shared this bizarre, seemingly eyeless creature on Twitter after the passing of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Expert opinions have varied, but some have identified it as a stippled spoon-nose eel whose eyes have rotted away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hundreds of ancient artifacts have washed up on a Dutch beach known as the sand engine. The Zandmotor, or sand engine, is an artifical beach built using ancient, dredged up sand from the sea floor. The dredging has caused over 500 artifacts to resurface, including mammoth teeth, Neanderthal tools, and even human remains. CRACKED.COM — Source

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After the 2011 earthquake, a Japanese Harley-Davison washed up on a Canadian beach 4,000 miles away. The bike was tracked down to Ikuo Yokoyama, a Japanese man who lost family members and his home when the earthquake hit. Harley-Davidson offered to repair it, but Yokoyama asked for it to be displayed in a museum instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hurricane Sandy dredged up long lost WWII love letters. my Darling a Kathleen Chaney and her son found the a Just this my is I few going near busy live now to d tomas bundle of 57 letters on a beach after the storm. They were all addressed to a man named Lynn from his lover, Dot, so Chaney took it upon herself to finally deliver them to the couple's descendents. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thousand of giant snowballs appeared on this Siberian beach. The snowballs, some of which weighed up to 75 pounds, astounded the locals and covered a stretch of beach 11 miles long. They're thought to be the result of a rare process where pieces of ice are rolled by waves and the wind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the 80s, New Jersey beaches were hit by a syringe tide. 00 D - 09 50 40 JUL 30 20 f OT g I THAI 2 U-100 INSULIN S 08 06 09 os 10g QG 20 30 20 40 30 40 ٥٤ 40 50 G 70 60 50 80 60 70. 90 O SO o 90 10 10 Medical waste, including used syringes, leaked from a New York landfill and spread along the entire Atlantic coast. Beaches across the coast were shut down, and New Jersey alone lost an estimated $1 billion in tourism revenue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1919, a German u-boat washed ashore in England. Gorman Submarine, 0.118 Washed Anhoro 87 Bastings The 267-foot-long submarine was being towed for scrapping when it broke free during a storm and beached itself. Two local men got sick and died after giving tours of the wreck, due to chlorine leaking from the sub's batteries. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A mysterious, legless man was found dying on a beach near a small town in Nova Scotia. Jerome of Nova Scotia, as he became known, lived the rest of his life in the town as a minor celebrity. While he spoke little, in time he revealed that he was from the Italian city of Trieste, and according to records his legs may have been amputated in a nearby town due to frostbite. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2001 a half ton of cocaine washed ashore São Miguel, changing the island forever. The enormous supply of cocaine, which had been left in the ocean by a smuggler, was so high there are stories of islanders adding it to their coffee like sugar. A booming drug market and an epidemic of addiction formed, which continues on the island to this day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to legend, a woman in a strange ship washed ashore in 19th century Japan. July NSS we the 4 ... - 1 Known as the Utsuro-bune, the woman was said to have exotic red hair, not speak japanese, and carried a small box with her. Unable to communicate, the woman reboarded her ship and returned to sea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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