
Vanishings!
Season 1
200326 episodes
From Glen Miller and Amelia Earhart to Leslie Howard and Agatha Christie, this series investigates in detail some of the most famous names who disappeared in the 20th century.
Episodes
- E1
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
2003-07-12 · 22m
On December 5, 1945, Flight 19 had disappeared without a trace into the area that would become known as the Bermuda Triangle.
- E2
Foo Fighters
2003-07-12 · 22m
Foo Fighters maneuvered in and around bomber formations. Some believe that the 1943 U.S. Navy experimented with making ships disappear.
- E3
Die Another Day: Surviving The Andes
2003-07-19 · 22m
In October 1972, a rugby team and friends en route from Uruguay to Chile boarded a plane in Argentina for a 90-minute flight to Santiago.
- E4
Lost in the Amazon
2003-07-19 · 22m
On April 20, 1925, British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and friend Raleigh Rimmel set off from a Brazilian frontier town into the Amazon jungle in search of a lost ancient city.
- E5
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
2003-07-26 · 22m
At 2 p.m. on July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa arrived at the Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant, to meet two former colleagues to discuss winning back his old position.
- E6
Lost in Libya
2003-07-26 · 22m
On April 4, 1943, a flight of US B-24 Liberator bombers took off from a desert airbase in Libya. Their target was the harbor of Naples--750 miles away.
- E7
Wrong Way Corrigan
2003-08-02 · 22m
In 1938, Douglas Corrigan climbed into a single-engine plane for a nonstop flight.
- E8
WWI Ace Balloon Buster
2003-08-02 · 22m
In 1918, US Lieutenant Frank Luke took off to destroy German observation balloons.
- E9
Mystery of the Missing Comet
2003-08-09 · 22m
On the morning of January 10, 1954, a British Comet, one of the first turbojet airliners, took off from Rome headed to London with six crew and 29 passengers.
- E10
Movie Star or Spy?
2003-08-09 · 22m
June 1943, a civilian plane took off from Portugal, heading for England.
- E11
Disappearance of Donald Campbell
2003-08-16 · 22m
In 1967, Donald Campbell attempted to break the world water speed record of 276 miles per hour--one he set three years earlier.
- E12
Disappearance of Donald Crowhurst
2003-08-16 · 22m
On October 31, 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from southwest England on a round-the-world solo yacht race in a newly-built 41-foot trimaran named the Teignmouth Electron.
- E13
The Kursk Lost At Sea
2003-09-13 · 22m
In August 2000, one of the biggest maritime disasters of modern times struck the Russian fleet in the Barents Sea.
- E14
The Gaul Lost At Sea
2003-09-13 · 22m
In 1974, the Gaul had vanished! Built to withstand, why did she disappear?
- E15
The pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. In the summer of 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
2003-09-20 · 22m
The pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. In the summer of 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
- E16
The Disappearance Of Amy Johnson
2003-09-20 · 22m
In January 1941, 37-year-old Amy Johnson, a world-famous record-breaking pilot, took off in an Airspeed Oxford from an RAF base in northern England.
- E17
Lost In The Arctic
2003-09-27 · 22m
In 1928, Umberto Nobile, an Italian pioneer of aerial exploration of the Arctic, set off for the North Pole aboard the airship Italia, along with a crew of 16 men.
- E18
Stardust Lost In The Andes
2003-09-27 · 22m
On August 2, 1947, the British airliner Stardust took off from Buenos Aires heading to Santiago in a flight that would take the six passengers and five crew members over the Andes.
- E19
USS Scorpion Lost At Sea
2003-10-04 · 22m
On May 17, 1968, the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion was making her way through the Mediterranean returning to base at Norfolk, Virginia, when she received top-secret orders.
- E20
Mallory And Irvine
2003-10-04 · 22m
On June 7, 1924, George Mallory, a 38-year-old English schoolmaster, and Andrew Irvine, a 22-year-old university student, stopped to rest on Mount Everest, at 26,800 feet, before making the final ascent.
- E21
Mallory and Irvine
2003-10-25 · 22m
A pair of explorers vanish while climbing Mount Everest in 1924.
- E22
The Disappearance Of Charles Kingsford Smith
2003-10-25 · 22m
On November 6, 1935, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took off from an airport near London in a Lockheed Altair monoplane, the Lady Southern Cross.
- E23
Disappearance of Buster Crabb
2003-12-13 · 22m
Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb disappears during a mission to spy on a Russian ship in a British harbor.
- E24
Lord Lucan: Murderer on the Run
2003-12-13 · 22m
A British aristocrat disappears after being accused of murder.
- E25
The Missing Prime Minister
2003-12-27 · 22m
Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming at the beach.
- E26
Disappearance of John Stonehouse
2003-12-27 · 22m
A member of the British government walks into the ocean and disappears.
