Missing people

"While reviewing his troops in the Campus Martius, a sudden storm with lightning and thunderclaps arose. A thick, black cloud hid him from view and no one saw him again."

"One of the first girls to make accusations of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, eventually leading to the Salem witch trials. After her final appearance in court, she disappears, and her eventual whereabouts and fate remain unknown."

"He disappeared from Batavia, NY just before his book critical of Freemasonry was published."

"American writer known for The Devil's Dictionary disappeared in/from Mexico. He was supposedly last heard from in a letter to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen."

"An unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, and parachuted from it during mid-flight with $200,000 he had extorted. No trace of him has ever been found."

"A 15-y.o. citizen of Vatican City disappeared. She called her sister to say she'd been 'offered a job with Avon Cosmetics'. Days later, the family received a call from a stranger claiming she ran away from home. Some days later Pope John Paul II appealed to those responsible of her disappearance, suggesting a kidnapping. She was allegedly, last seen at the back of a dark BMW."