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31. Hawaii, U.S. Aikau, a Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer, disappeared on 17 March 1978 when he was lost at sea while attempting to reach the island of Lanai on a surfboard. The long-distance Hawaiian outrigger, the Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai.
10. Spain. Martínez, the ten-year-old son of a tank truck driver, mysteriously disappeared after his father's truck overturned in the Somosierra mountain pass and spilled its cargo of over 20,000 litres of sulphuric acid, resulting in deaths of his parents. However, the child's body was never found at the scene.
Kyron Richard Horman (born September 9, 2002) is an American boy who disappeared from Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2010, after attending a science fair. [ 1 ] Local and state police, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), conducted an exhaustive search and launched a criminal investigation, but have ...
Upon reaching shore, he found part of his boot missing, though he himself was not injured. [13] The marks on the boots indicated a shark, making him the first shark attack victim in Oregon history. [citation needed] Pacific City: Phoenix: 5 November 1923: A gas schooner that capsized on Tillamook Bar. Four died. [14] Barview: Sea Island: 7 ...
Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people. [6] In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in ...
Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition. In May 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded American to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the privately owned Columbia Rediviva, was eventually used as a basis for the United States ' claim on the Pacific Northwest, although ...
Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The western half crossed the current ...
Missing for 97 years, 10 months and 28 days. Height. 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Marvin Alvin Clark (c. 1852 – disappeared October 30, 1926) was an American man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while en route to visit his daughter in Portland, Oregon during the Halloween weekend, 1926. Clark's case has the distinction of being the oldest ...